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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: Consistently use octal not symbolic permissions
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 09:41 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2018, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > There is currently a mixture of octal and symbolic permissions uses
> > in files in drivers/gpu/drm and one file in drivers/gpu.
> > 
> > There are ~270 existing octal uses and ~115 S_<FOO> uses.
> > 
> > Convert all the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents
> > as using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
> > readable.
> > 
> > see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
> > 
> > Done with automated conversion via:
> > $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>
> > 
> > Miscellanea:
> > 
> > o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
> > o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis
> > o drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_debugfs.c has a world-writeable
> >   debug permission for "reset" - perhaps that should be modified
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c        |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_pm.c             | 98 +++++++++++-----------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c           |  3 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c            |  9 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c            |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c                      |  6 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c                  |  4 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c                        |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c                |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c                |  8 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c                   |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_sysfs.c                  | 22 ++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pipe_crc.c              |  2 +-
> 
> Please send at least i915 changes separately. There's zero reason to
> make our lives harder for this change.

The idea is to avoid unnecessary multiple patches for
individual trees.

But you could do that via something like:

$ git am --include='drivers/gpu/drm/i915/*' <patch>

cheers, Joe