On 18.01.2011 19:21, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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 user -- 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. It's quite likely that something breaks. Module aliases only work for loading modules, not for unloading them. So there's a big chance that some scripts will break. We've done renames occasionally when necessary (f.i. ip_conntrack => nf_conntrack), but this really rare case of users using stupid file systems doesn't really justify this in my opinion. Anyone actually using Linux is not going to have this problem. -- 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
