Joe Perches
2018-May-23 22:35 UTC
[PATCH] block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions
On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 15:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:> On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > 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.
Jens Axboe
2018-May-24 12:47 UTC
[PATCH] block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions
On 5/23/18 4:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote:> On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 15:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >>> 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.That does help justify the change. My main worry here is creating unnecessary conflicts, which is always annoying. But it's even more annoying when the change creating the conflict isn't really that important at all. Case in point, the patch doesn't apply to the for-4.18/block branch that it should go into... -- Jens Axboe
Joe Perches
2018-May-24 13:01 UTC
[PATCH] block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions
On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 06:47 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:> On 5/23/18 4:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 15:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > 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. > > That does help justify the change. My main worry here is creating > unnecessary conflicts, which is always annoying. But it's even more > annoying when the change creating the conflict isn't really that > important at all. Case in point, the patch doesn't apply to the > for-4.18/block branch that it should go into...Done against most recent -next as it's basically impossible to do anything against multiple private trees. Also, the script that generated the patch is in the changelog so it's simple to rerun.