From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter•org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai•de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com>,
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov•de>,
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Subject: Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200614220101.GA9367@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YFH.7.77.849.2006142244200.30230@n3.vanv.qr>
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 11:08:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Sunday 2020-06-14 22:19, David Howells wrote:
> >Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov•de> wrote:
> >
> >> *Is it a good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?*
> >
> >Very likely not. If programs out there are going to be built on a
> >case-sensitive filesystem (which happens all the time), they're going to break
> >if you rename the headers. We're kind of stuck with them.
>
> Netfilter has precedent for removing old headers, e.g.
> 7200135bc1e61f1437dc326ae2ef2f310c50b4eb's ipt_ULOG.h.
That's only because NFLOG has been there for ~10 years, so it was safe
to remove ULOG support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-14 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-14 19:41 Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ? Alexander A. Klimov
2020-06-14 20:19 ` David Howells
2020-06-14 21:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2020-06-14 22:01 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2020-06-14 23:34 ` Alexander A. Klimov
2020-06-22 11:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2020-06-22 12:07 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-06-22 18:06 ` Alexander A. Klimov
2020-06-14 20:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2020-06-14 23:07 ` Alexander A. Klimov
2020-06-15 11:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-06-14 22:47 ` Al Viro
2020-06-15 11:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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