Re: [PATCH 1045/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 16:46:21 EST


Trimming the cc list..

On 08/02/2016 07:11 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.

NACK for the same reasons that others have rejected companion patches.

0644 is much easier to read than S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH.

>
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/jfs/super.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/jfs/super.c b/fs/jfs/super.c
> index cec8814..c348410 100644
> --- a/fs/jfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/jfs/super.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct task_struct *jfsSyncThread;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG
> int jfsloglevel = JFS_LOGLEVEL_WARN;
> -module_param(jfsloglevel, int, 0644);
> +module_param(jfsloglevel, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(jfsloglevel, "Specify JFS loglevel (0, 1 or 2)");
> #endif