On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 04:01:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Joe Perches <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Convert S_<FOO> permissions to the more readable octal.
> Something like that should be able to address the readability while
> still using symbolic constants.
Macros are easy. I've sent a patch long time ago which does essentially
#define rwxrwxrwx 0777
...
But then kernel will start using something nobode else does.
This whole issue is like sizeof(*ptr) vs sizeof(sizeof(struct S)).
No preferred way overall with ever vigilant checkpatch.pl guarding
kernel 24/7. :-)
