On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 15:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote:

quoted

Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as
using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
readable.

see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945

Done with automated conversion via:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>

Miscellanea:

o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis

Honestly, I see this as pretty needless churn.

btw:

There is currently a mixture of symbolic and octal
permissions uses in block and drivers/block

ie: 94 octal and 146 symbolic uses.

If this is applied, all would become octal.