On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 11:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > (adding Julia Lawall) > > > > On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 20:44 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 07:05:09PM +1300, Derek Robson wrote: > > > > A style fix across whole driver. > > > > changed permissions to octal style, found using checkpatch > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Derek Robson <robso...@gmail.com> > > > > > > FWIW, I think changes like this are best done using coccinelle. > > > > I think checkpatch does it reasonably well. > > > > Julia? Can coccinelle do this? > > > > I believe cocinelle doesn't handle the substitution > > and octal addition very well when multiple flags > > are used. > > > > Why not ? Seems to be quite simple. One just has to list all the variants > being used in the rule. > > > > That ensures that the results can be reproduced and are well defined. > > > As it is, someone will have to check each line of your patches to ensure > > > that the conversion is correct. > > > > > > It would also ensure (hopefully) that we don't end up with constructs > > > such as > > > > > > > -#define USER_R (S_IFREG|S_IRUGO) > > > > -#define USER_W (S_IFREG|S_IWUGO) > > > > +#define USER_R (S_IFREG|0444) > > > > +#define USER_W (S_IFREG|0666) > > > > > > which really defeat the purpose of the whole exercise. > > > > Why do you think mixing file specific attributes > > with octal permissions is a bad thing? > > > > Just an assumption. My bad. Ultimately, what I think doesn't really > matter, though - because what I think is that the whole "use octals" > is a bad idea to start with. I don't think I have received yet the message that this is referring to. But I don't see a problem for Coccinelle a priori. If there are things that need to be added together, as long as they are explicit constants, that can be done in python or ocaml. julia
