Re: [PATCH 0829/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

From: Larry Finger
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 10:51:20 EST


On 08/02/2016 06:50 AM, Baole Ni wrote:
I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the corresponding macro,
and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.

Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@xxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure how much these changes improve robustness and/or readability, but they cause no harm. For that reason, the changes in rtlwifi drivers is acked.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Larry

---
drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
index 55ef7d1..ac6f619 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static const u_int exponent[] = {

/* 16-bit CIS? */
static int cis_width;
-module_param(cis_width, int, 0444);
+module_param(cis_width, int, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);

void release_cis_mem(struct pcmcia_socket *s)
{