On Tuesday 2011-01-18 19:37, Eric Dumazet wrote: >Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 Ã 19:21 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a Ãcrit : >> >>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. > >Why not renaming only clashing files, and make sure future files are >lowercase only ? I did not think of it as a big deal; renames of non-conflicting files was trivial low-hanging fruit. So might as well do it across the board to get it into order. It also happens to serve to not encourage users to continue using uppercase on new submissions (since they are, at times, copy-and-paste happy - we have seen that in the userspace code even more often than in the kernel in the past - and don't read git logs or mailing lists to get to know current practices). -- 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
