[lustre-devel] [PATCH v3] staging: lustre: llite: Replace the symbolic file permission mode with the numeric one

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 13 02:25:31 PDT 2017


On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:28:30AM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> Replaces S_IRWXUGO with 0777. The reason is that symbolic permissions
> considered harmful:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Storozhenko <romeusmeister at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

What changed in this version of the patch?  You always have to say that
below the --- line, like the documentation says to do.

Please fix, make a v4, and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h


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