On Tue,  2 Aug 2016 20:14:21 +0800
Baole Ni <[email protected]> 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.
> 

NACK!

I find 0444 more readable than S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH.

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c 
> b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
> index 6df9a83..c7a495af1 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
> @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ static struct task_struct *consumer;
>  static unsigned long read;
>  
>  static unsigned int disable_reader;
> -module_param(disable_reader, uint, 0644);
> +module_param(disable_reader, uint, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_reader, "only run producer");
>  
>  static unsigned int write_iteration = 50;
> -module_param(write_iteration, uint, 0644);
> +module_param(write_iteration, uint, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(write_iteration, "# of writes between timestamp readings");
>  
>  static int producer_nice = MAX_NICE;
> @@ -46,16 +46,16 @@ static int consumer_nice = MAX_NICE;
>  static int producer_fifo = -1;
>  static int consumer_fifo = -1;
>  
> -module_param(producer_nice, int, 0644);
> +module_param(producer_nice, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(producer_nice, "nice prio for producer");
>  
> -module_param(consumer_nice, int, 0644);
> +module_param(consumer_nice, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(consumer_nice, "nice prio for consumer");
>  
> -module_param(producer_fifo, int, 0644);
> +module_param(producer_fifo, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(producer_fifo, "fifo prio for producer");
>  
> -module_param(consumer_fifo, int, 0644);
> +module_param(consumer_fifo, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(consumer_fifo, "fifo prio for consumer");
>  
>  static int read_events;

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