From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Aaron Wright <wright_left@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [0/5] xtables: phase out case sensitivity
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D35BCC7.90805@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1101181628540.15366@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-18 15:38 [0/5] xtables: phase out case sensitivity Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 15:39 ` [1/5] netfilter: xtables: avoid case-sensitive filenames (1/5) Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 15:39 ` [2/5] netfilter: xtables: case-sensitivity avoidance (2/5) Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 15:39 ` [3/5] netfilter: xtables: case-sensitivity avoidance (3/5) Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 15:40 ` [4/5] netfilter: xtables: case-sensitivity avoidance (4/5) Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 15:40 ` [5/5] netfilter: xtables: case-sensitivity avoidance (5/5) Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 16:16 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-01-18 17:37 ` [0/5] xtables: phase out case sensitivity Sam Roberts
2011-01-18 18:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 18:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-18 18:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 16:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-19 19:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 19:54 ` Patrick McHardy
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