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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:15:08 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: dmatest: change symbolic permissions to
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:31:48PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 06:44:40PM +0800, Yang Shunyong wrote:
> >> Current coding style prefers octal permissions values. This patch
> >> changes symbolic permissions to octal values.
> >
> > Is this preference documented anywhere?
> 
> This is where it started.
> 
> lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzu59sXo7qA8CoCo+tSJgEkW7fWDjkt_tsTzPWZ7gxj1A@mail.gmail.com

Right but lets no go changing to octals everywhere, new code sure :)
I don't see plans to remove representations entirely from kernel yet.

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~Vinod