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Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead

From Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead
Date 2016-08-03 04:10 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.

Oh, for Cthulhu sake!  So not only we had been dribbled upon with 1200-odd
piles of pointless crap, now we'll be getting yet another set of equally
pointless garbage each time a bored wanker gets to run checkpatch.pl?

Leave that alone.  In either direction.  Dipshits on quest for commit count
have enough tools already, no need to add another one...

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Please don't replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-02 23:00 +0200
  Re: Please don't replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2016-08-03 00:00 +0200
  [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-03 01:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest  octal instead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-03 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest  octal instead Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-08-03 04:10 +0200
  Re: Please don't replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-08-03 02:50 +0200
    Re: Please don't replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 10:10 +0200
      Re: Please don't replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 10:40 +0200
  [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-08-03 10:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-03 10:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-08-03 11:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-08-03 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-03 12:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-03 17:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Add file permission mode helpers Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-03 19:00 +0200

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