Re: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

From	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Date	2016-08-02 18:00 +0200
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On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 10:20 -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
> > > 
> > 
> > I have to ask, why did you ack all these? There's several things
> > wrong with
> > this patch series, but even the point of the patch is mistaken. It
> > makes
> > readable code much less readable. When you chmod a file, do you
> > type
> > 
> >   chmod 0444 file
> > 
> > or do you write
> > 
> >   chmod S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IROTH file
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > Which of the above is easier to figure what is being changed?
> > 
> 
> I assumed this was some global "fix up".   

It is, but I'm not so sure I don't agree with Steve.  I'm not sure this
actually makes things better.  At a minimum, I would argue that Bart's
fix is mandatory before they would get my ack.  I would also request
that even though the patches are split up for review, they be squashed
on commit (whoever would want to tackle this monstrous pile of dubious
janitorial stuff).

> > 
> > Not to mention, because the subject is the same for all 1285
> > patches, and you
> > deleted the content of the patch in your ack, there's no way to
> > know what
> > exactly this ack is for (I haven't received the original patch yet
> > because
> > it's probably being ratelimited by some mail server).
> > 
> 
> I acked just the single patches that hit cxgb3/cxgb4.  But if this is
> really
> garbage, then ignore my ACKs...
> 
> Steve.
> 

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Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Re: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-02 17:20 +0200
  RE: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro "Steve Wise" <swise@opengridcomputing.com> - 2016-08-02 17:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0254/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-08-02 18:00 +0200

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