Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pwm: core: Use octal permission | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:41:31 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:35 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Actually I'd prefer keeping the symbolic name because this is easier to > grep for. So to convince me a better reason than "checkpatch says so" is > needed.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:58:29 -0400
The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. Not in the kernel, not in user space.
Linus
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