On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 08:43:31AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Sz"oke Benjamin wrote: > > 2024. 11. 12. 2:02 keltezéssel, Boqun Feng írta: > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 12:21:51AM +0100, Sz"oke Benjamin wrote: > > > > 2024. 11. 11. 23:00 keltezéssel, Linus Torvalds írta: > > > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 13:15, Sz"oke Benjamin <egyszeregy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a technical issue in the Linux kernel source tree's file naming/styles > > > > > > in git clone command on case-insensitive filesystem. > > > > > > > > > > No. > > > > > > > > > > This is entirely your problem. > > > > > > > > > > The kernel build does not work, and is not intended to work on broken setups. > > > > > > > > > > If you have a case-insensitive filesystem, you get to keep both broken parts. > > > > > > > > > > I actively hate case-insensitive filesystems. It's a broken model in > > > > > so many ways. I will not lift a finger to try to help that > > > > > braindamaged setup. > > > > > > > > > > "Here's a nickel, Kid. Go buy yourself a real computer" > > > > > > > > > > Linus > > > > > > > > > > > > In this patch my goal is to improve Linux kernel codebase to able to > > > > edit/coding in any platform, in an IDE which has a modern GUI. > > > > > > > > Chillout, i am not so stupid to compile kernel on this "braindamaged setup", > > > > I just like to edit the code and manage it by git commands. > > > > > > > > > > Then you just need to create a case-sensitive partition, no? What's the > > > *technical* issue of doing that? And that cannot be more challenging > > > than testing your kernel changes, right? So it won't raise the bar of a > > > potential serious kernel contributer. > > > > It is easy to say just need a case-sensitive partition, and sure it can be > > configurable but for example on Windows, admin rights needed for it, which > > is not available in 90% for a workstation machine in an universitiy or a > > general company. > > Or, as Boqun suggested, one of these websites: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11/source > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master > https://lxr.linux.no/ > I would also suggest using WSL or using GitHub codespaces or similar: https://github.com/codespaces because in 2024, trend is cloud computing. ;-) Regards, Boqun > And quite a few more. They have at least some of the IDE-provided > cross-referencing capabilities, though I must confess that I still use > cscope and vi. ;-) > > Thanx, Paul
