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

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:26:44 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        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 Wed, 2018-03-28 at 21:07 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I wasn't aware that checkpatch can perform changes as well.

Someone (probably me) should write some better documentation
for checkpatch one day.

The command-line --help output isn't obvious.