[PATCH] Staging: speakup: styel fix, octal file permissions

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Jan 8 11:32:27 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:01:31PM +1300, Derek Robson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 08:39:45AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 05:11:16PM +1300, Derek Robson wrote:
> > > Changed file permission to octal style,
> > > Found using checkpatch
> > 
> > Typo in your subject line :(
> > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Derek Robson <robsonde at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> > > index e744aa9730ff..4e7ebc306488 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> > > @@ -865,66 +865,66 @@ static struct kobj_attribute version_attribute =
> > >  	__ATTR_RO(version);
> > >  
> > >  static struct kobj_attribute delimiters_attribute =
> > > -	__ATTR(delimiters, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, punc_show, punc_store);
> > > +	__ATTR(delimiters, 0644, punc_show, punc_store);
> > >  static struct kobj_attribute ex_num_attribute =
> > > -	__ATTR(ex_num, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, punc_show, punc_store);
> > > +	__ATTR(ex_num, 0644, punc_show, punc_store);
> > 
> > Why not just use __ATTR_RW() for all of these instead?  Be much easier
> > and smaller and is recommended instead of spelling out the mode values
> > everywhere.
> 
> It looks like that won't work in this case the handler is reused and not in the standard format of attrName_show. 
> 
> Or have I not understood the use of __ATTR_RW() ?

Ugh, you are right, nevermind.  Please resend this and say why you can't
use __ATTR_RW() in the changelog text so I don't ask you again when it's
resent :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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