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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: dmatest: change symbolic permissions to octal values
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:31:48PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 06:44:40PM +0800, Yang Shunyong wrote:
> >> Current coding style prefers octal permissions values. This patch
> >> changes symbolic permissions to octal values.
> >
> > Is this preference documented anywhere?
>
> This is where it started.
>
> lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzu59sXo7qA8CoCo+tSJgEkW7fWDjkt_tsTzPWZ7gxj1A@mail.gmail.com

Right but lets no go changing to octals everywhere, new code sure :)
I don't see plans to remove representations entirely from kernel yet.

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~Vinod

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