linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] pwm: core: Use octal permission

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Message-ID: <20201118134948.GS1869941@dell>
Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:49:48 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Soham Biswas <sohambiswas41@...il.com>
Cc:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, thierry.reding@...il.com,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pwm: core: Use octal permission

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Soham Biswas wrote:

> Sure will do that. Sorry for the inconvenience, I am a bit new to the
> process of emailing patches. Should I mark the next patch as v3?

Make sure the text you are quoting does above your reply.

This is called top-posting and is frowned upon.

Yes, please bump the version number - it will make the tooling happy.

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 18:13, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > [added "v2" to the subject, would have been better if you had already
> > done that. I don't know if/how this confuses tools like b4 and patchwork]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 04:17:30PM +0530, Soham Biswas wrote:
> > > Fixes the following warning generated by checkpatch:
> > >
> > > drivers/pwm/core.c:1341: WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are
> > > not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
> > >
> > > +debugfs_create_file("pwm", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO, NULL, NULL,
> > >                           &pwm_debugfs_fops);
> >
> > something like: "Permission bits are easier readable in octal than with
> > using the symbolic names." in the commit log would be good for those of
> > us who missed why this was added to checkpatch.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Uwe
> >
> >

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