From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB3FC433E0 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080E4206D7 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727918AbgFNWBH (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:01:07 -0400 Received: from correo.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:33356 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727924AbgFNWBG (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:01:06 -0400 Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (unknown [192.168.2.11]) by mail.us.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BA7FF912 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CEBDA78F for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix, from userid 99) id D37A9DA856; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E35DA72F; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.1.97 (192.168.1.97) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (F-Secure/fsigk_smtp/550/antivirus1-rhel7.int); Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Status: clean(F-Secure/fsigk_smtp/550/antivirus1-rhel7.int) Received: from us.es (unknown [90.77.255.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: 1984lsi) by entrada.int (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FBD4426CCBA; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:01:01 +0200 X-SMTPAUTHUS: auth mail.us.es From: Pablo Neira Ayuso To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: David Howells , "Alexander A. Klimov" , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Alan Stern , Andrea Parri , Will Deacon , Peter Zijlstra , Boqun Feng , Nicholas Piggin , Jade Alglave , Luc Maranget , "Paul E. McKenney" , Akira Yokosawa , Daniel Lustig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ? Message-ID: <20200614220101.GA9367@salvia> References: <9feded75-4b45-2821-287b-af00ec5f910f@al2klimov.de> <174102.1592165965@warthog.procyon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org 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 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.