linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: dmatest: change symbolic permissions to octal values

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:57:00 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:     Yang Shunyong <shunyong.yang@...-semitech.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: dmatest: change symbolic permissions to
 octal values

On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 09:16 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote:
> > Right but lets no go changing to octals everywhere, new code sure :)
> > I don't see plans to remove representations entirely from kernel yet.
> 
> Sure. I was just pointing out to the discussion where the *preferred* thing
> happened.

Not really true.  Linus prefers actual octal
and suggested treewide conversions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/