Re: Request: Remove duplicate file names in the kernel source

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From: Peter Hallberg <hallberg68@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:53:35 +0200

> The netfilter sources in the Linux Kernel contains a number of files
> that is duplicates expect for the case, like foo.c and FOO.c, this
> creates a problem when untaring the kernel source on a filesystem
> that doesn't support it like the common Windows file systems,
> sometimes you have the need to study the kernel source on other
> systems and it really is unecessary and confusing to have this
> naming so I would like to ask you to change it, below is a list of
> the files:

We can't change these, especially the ones under include/linux,
without breaking userspace as userspace includes these files.

I find it strange that you want to study an advanced OS using such a
primitive filesystem :-)
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