Set the permissions for /proc/misc to 0444 explicitly. At the moment, we're using 0 and have proc_create_data() convert this to 0444. This fixes a checkpatch warning.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <mar...@kaiser.cx> --- v2: separate patch for each checkpatch warning drivers/char/misc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c index 3447b2e..3c633d5 100644 --- a/drivers/char/misc.c +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __init misc_init(void) int err; struct proc_dir_entry *ret; - ret = proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops); + ret = proc_create("misc", 0444, NULL, &misc_proc_fops); misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc"); err = PTR_ERR(misc_class); if (IS_ERR(misc_class)) -- 1.7.10.4