linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/20] staging: rtl8192u: Replace symbolic permissions with octal permissions

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Message-ID: <20170212165705.GA29221@singhal-Inspiron-5558>
Date:   Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:27:05 +0530
From:   simran singhal <singhalsimran0@...il.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/20] staging: rtl8192u: Replace symbolic permissions with
 octal permissions

WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR' are not preferred.
Consider using octal permissions '0644'.
This warning is detected by checkpatch.pl

Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
index a9a92d8..2ebc320 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ int __init ieee80211_debug_init(void)
 				" proc directory\n");
 		return -EIO;
 	}
-	e = proc_create("debug_level", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
+	e = proc_create("debug_level", 0644,
 			      ieee80211_proc, &fops);
 	if (!e) {
 		remove_proc_entry(DRV_NAME, init_net.proc_net);
-- 
2.7.4