Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: speakup: Replace symbolic permissions with octal permissions

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Oct 13 2017 - 17:44:07 EST




On Sat, 14 Oct 2017, Shreeya Patel wrote:

> Resolve following checkpatch issue:
> WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred.
> Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> index 60bcf0d..402b0fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static struct spk_synth synth_bns = {
> };
>
> module_param_named(ser, synth_bns.ser, int, 0444);
> -module_param_named(dev, synth_bns.dev_name, charp, S_IRUGO);
> +module_param_named(dev, synth_bns.dev_name, charp, 0444);

This change is already made. You need to update your staging tree.

julia

> module_param_named(start, synth_bns.startup, short, 0444);
>
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(ser, "Set the serial port for the synthesizer (0-based).");
> --
> 2.7.4
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