Re: [PATCH 0001/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Tue,  2 Aug 2016 18:33:22 +0800
Baole Ni <baolex.ni@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

If you are going to do this then please generate one patch per subsystem,
and just do a couple of subsystems initially until everyone is happy with
how it is being converted, then send out more subsystem by subsystem.

Alan