[PATCH v4] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
From: Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-06 20:11:13
Subsystem:
checkpatch documentation, documentation, documentation process, the rest · Maintainers:
Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Add a new message type SYMBOLIC_PERMS under the 'Permissions' subsection. Users should use octal permission bits instead of their symbolic macro names. Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <redacted> --- Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index f0956e9ea..009957cda 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst@@ -957,6 +957,12 @@ Permissions Permission bits should use 4 digit octal permissions (like 0700 or 0444). Avoid using any other base like decimal. + **SYMBOLIC_PERMS** + Permission bits in the octal form are more readable and easier to + understand than their symbolic counterparts. + + See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com/ + Spacing and Brackets --------------------
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2.17.1
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