Re: [PATCH 0829/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 08/02/2016 06:50 AM, Baole Ni 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>

I'm not sure how much these changes improve robustness and/or readability, but 
they cause no harm. For that reason, the changes in rtlwifi drivers is acked.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Larry

> ---
>  drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
> index 55ef7d1..ac6f619 100644
> --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
> +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static const u_int exponent[] = {
>
>  /* 16-bit CIS? */
>  static int cis_width;
> -module_param(cis_width, int, 0444);
> +module_param(cis_width, int, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>
>  void release_cis_mem(struct pcmcia_socket *s)
>  {
>