[PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
Utkarsh Verma
utkarshverma294 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 14:19:47 UTC 2021
Add a new message type SYMBOLIC_PERMS under the 'Permissions'
subsection. Checkpatch documentation that recommends the user to use
the octal permission bits instead of their symbolic macro names.
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294 at gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index f0956e9ea..5094e3419 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -957,6 +957,10 @@ Permissions
Permission bits should use 4 digit octal permissions (like 0700 or 0444).
Avoid using any other base like decimal.
+ **SYMBOLIC_PERMS**
+ Permission bits in the octal form are more readable and easier to
+ understand than their symbolic counterparts.
+
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