linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions

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Message-ID: <1522105514.12357.38.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:05:14 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions

On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 15:36 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves 
> the readability imo.

Right.

I have no personal objection to very occasionally using
line lengths < ~100 chars instead of 80.

AFAIK: neither does Linus.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/749

Beyond that, I believe it's too much left-right eyeball
movement for quick and easy reading comprehension.