On Tuesday 2011-01-18 17:16, Patrick McHardy wrote: >On 18.01.2011 16:38, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694 [...] 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. So here is a proposed patchset that starts the >> migration. [...] > >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. > >[...] 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. I'll try to add to my case then; The dependency on case-sensitivity is a long-known issue, so much that in fact, Bart avoided doing this again as early as ebtables's inception around 2002. I am pretty sure there was more than just this one 2011 userÂ-- needless to say you have to count me in --, and that there was discussion [during my time 2007 onwards]. Google fails me on finding that, though I dug up another report from 2004: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/17/147 At that time Harald argued "iptables fundamentally relies on the destinction", though that does not apply today thanks to module aliases. As a resident contributor, I stand behind the changes. In the unlikely even that it breaks, I see it as duty to fix it. The churn is on me already practically. Assistance is offered to users who do run into including, but not limited to, such issues. The IRC channel is lively again, open reports in various bugzilla trackers are actively being inspected for non-distro faults and resolved. The overall user experience, IMHO, has greatly improved since iptables 1.3.8, and I would like to continue on working on it. I am sure something can be devised if your time does not permit patch handling. == Anticipating pending patches from others (specifically xt_nfqueue revÂ2 from Florian), git-merge is likely needed to cope with the renames, when applying others' patch files. -- 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
