Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.

Oh, for Cthulhu sake!  So not only we had been dribbled upon with 1200-odd
piles of pointless crap, now we'll be getting yet another set of equally
pointless garbage each time a bored wanker gets to run checkpatch.pl?

Leave that alone.  In either direction.  Dipshits on quest for commit count
have enough tools already, no need to add another one...