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From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
To: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1045/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 13:14:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acf38de2-96c3-090f-9086-e111c9a4bc17@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160802121122.19777-1-baolex.ni@intel.com>

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@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>
> ---
>  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

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 12:11 [PATCH 1045/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Baole Ni
2016-08-02 18:14 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]

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