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Message-ID: <8a30c3d1-a1a4-468c-a9f4-d15e0f418ef6@kili.mountain>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:03:20 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:     Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@...il.com>
Cc:     Michael.Hennerich@...log.com, lars@...afoo.de, jic23@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Outreachy Linux Kernel <outreachy@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: Outreachy

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:17:28PM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
> Hi Mentors,
> 
> 
> I am Menna, Outreachy applicant and I work on my clean-up patches.
> 
> Is it Okay to work on this error reported by checkpatch script?
> 
> 
> drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c
> --------------------------------------
> ERROR: Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions
> #256: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c:256:
> +static IIO_DEV_ATTR_FREQ(0, 1, 0200, NULL, ad9832_write, AD9832_FREQ1HM);

What???  Is it complaining about the 0200?  That is octal.  Why is
checkpatch complaining about this?  Am I wrong?  Maybe I am misreading.

I could investigate, but I am leaving that task to you.  It may be that
checkpatch has a problem and you can fix that instead.

regards,
dan carpenter

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