On 18.01.2011 16:38, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > bug report http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694 , though > being written in a heated fashion, did prompt me to revisit the > actual issue. While I have to question why users are relying on > inferior filesystems (the issue was raised before on the lists), I > feel inclined to solve bugs. Well, I don't see any benefit in causing so much churn just for *one* user, who has been feeling unhappy about his scripts not working properly. > So here is a proposed patchset that starts the migration. Since iptables > userspace looks modules up by protocol anyway, it continues to work. The > only thing is headers, which is merely a build time thing and, as has > itself shown in the past years, no deal. Within the usual grace period > of 1-1.5 years (or even sooner than usual - since userspace has its own > copies of headers), the netfilter/ dirs can be completely case-free. I don't want to apply this. Feel free to try to convince other netfilter developers that this is a good idea and I'll pull it in, but so far this looks like useless noise to me. -- 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
