[PATCH] powerpc: Use octal numbers for file permissions

[Michael Ellerman]

Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 14:54 +1100, Russell Currey wrote:
>> Symbolic macros are unintuitive and hard to read, whereas octal constants
>> are much easier to interpret.  Replace macros for the basic permission
>> flags (user/group/other read/write/execute) with numeric constants
>> instead, across the whole powerpc tree.
>> 
>> Introducing a significant number of changes across the tree for no runtime
>> benefit isn't exactly desirable, but so long as these macros are still
>> used in the tree people will keep sending patches that add them.  Not only
>> are they hard to parse at a glance, there are multiple ways of coming to
>> the same value (as you can see with 0444 and 0644 in this patch) which
>> hurts readability.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
>
> Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>

Did you really really review every single change?

Because if you did then I don't have to, and that would be *great* :)

cheers