[PATCH 0001/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Masami Hiramatsu
mhiramat at kernel.org
Tue Aug 2 08:08:09 PDT 2016
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:15:03 +0100
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 18:33:22 +0800
> Baole Ni <baolex.ni at intel.com> 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.
>
> If you are going to do this then please generate one patch per subsystem,
> and just do a couple of subsystems initially until everyone is happy with
> how it is being converted, then send out more subsystem by subsystem.
+1
Moreover, please DO NOT use same subject and same description for each patch (explain
what you did and why for each one), unless it will be just spamming git-log...
Thank you,
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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
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