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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> If somebody is interested in making the "lots of filename changes" case go 
> fast, I'd be more than happy to walk them through what they'd need to 
> change. I'm just not horribly motivated to do it myself. Hint, hint.

In case anybody is wondering, I share the same feeling.  I
cannot say I'd be "more than happy to" clean up potential
breakages during the development of such changes, but if the
change eventually would help certain use cases, I can be
persuaded to help debugging such a mess ;-).