I ran a treewide script and changed them all to octal and built a kernel
which i am currently running on my machine, I have used DEVICE_ATTR_RO()
for 0444's where possible if i dont find any regressions I will post a
patch for review. I think i will be testing it at least for a week.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 11:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

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There are much more urgent issues to fix there (such as, for example,
converting the "offending" drivers to the latest API, which would
magically cause most of the offenders to disappear).

Perhaps posting a list of desired hwmon changes could help.

Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches does not seem to specify
what the "latest API" is nor describe what changes would be
required in older drivers.