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Message-ID: <1507931160.5597.0.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 14 Oct 2017 03:16:00 +0530
From:   Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, w.d.hubbs@...il.com,
        chris@...-brannons.com, kirk@...sers.ca,
        samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org, speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: speakup: Replace symbolic
 permissions with octal permissions

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 23:44 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Resolve following checkpatch issue:
> > WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred.
> > Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> > b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> > index 60bcf0d..402b0fb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static struct spk_synth synth_bns = {
> >  };
> > 
> >  module_param_named(ser, synth_bns.ser, int, 0444);
> > -module_param_named(dev, synth_bns.dev_name, charp, S_IRUGO);
> > +module_param_named(dev, synth_bns.dev_name, charp, 0444);
> This change is already made.  You need to update your staging tree.
> 
> julia

Oh, ok i'll do it.


> 
> > 
> >  module_param_named(start, synth_bns.startup, short, 0444);
> > 
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(ser, "Set the serial port for the synthesizer (0-
> > based).");
> > --
> > 2.7.4
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