On Saturday 2008-08-16 15:14, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: >On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Friday 2008-08-15 18:03, P˙˙teris K˙˙avi˙˙š wrote: >> >> > The changes are proposed in order to avoid file name clashes on >> > filesystems that do not allow two files to have names that differ >> > only in the case of their letters: >> > >> > include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h => xt_connmark_target.h >> [...] >> >> As I see it, this will already be addressed by merging complementary >> code into one source file (e.g. MARK, mark, CONNMARK, connmark >> all into a big new xt_mark.c), to reduce (a) amount of files >> and (b) build time. >[...] > >That is half of the story: we encode the functionality (match/target) in >the case of the (file)name and there are targets which have got no match >counterpart and thus no natural lowercase filename to merge into it. So >the directory tree still will be broken on case-insensitive filesystems. We have not decided on filenames yet, just that matches/targets that are commonly used together should go into a single file for the two above-mentioned reasons, and lower-casing does not appear in (a) or (b). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
