linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging:most/hdm-i2c: Replace symbolic permissions with octal permissions

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Date:   Fri,  3 Feb 2017 22:54:06 +0800
From:   Zhengyi Shen <shenzhengyi@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging:most/hdm-i2c: Replace symbolic permissions with octal permissions

WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred.
Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
This warning was detected by checkpatch.pl for hdm_i2c.c.

Signed-off-by: Zhengyi Shen <shenzhengyi@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/most/hdm-i2c/hdm_i2c.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-i2c/hdm_i2c.c b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-i2c/hdm_i2c.c
index ba0263b..1d5b229 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-i2c/hdm_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-i2c/hdm_i2c.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ enum { CH_RX, CH_TX, NUM_CHANNELS };
 
 /* IRQ / Polling option */
 static bool polling_req;
-module_param(polling_req, bool, S_IRUGO);
+module_param(polling_req, bool, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(polling_req, "Request Polling. Default = 0 (use irq)");
 
 /* Polling Rate */
-- 
2.9.3