Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:40:01 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well (was: Re: 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)?) |
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:24:40PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 08:06:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > > Converting .S -> .s is useful for debugging - please don't cripple the > > kernel developers just because some filesystems are case-challenged. > > Does the debug tools rely on files named *.s then? > > There are today ~1400 files named *.S in the tree, but none named *.s. > So my idea was to do it like: > *.S => *.asm => *.o > But if this breaks some debugging tools I would like to know.
*.asm is nonstanard naming. If we have to support case-challenged filesystems, please ensure that the rest of the nonbroken world can continue as they have done for the last few decades and live happily unaffected by these problems.
> Btw. this is not about "case-challenged" filesystems in general. This is > about making the kernel usefull out-of-the-box for the increasing > embedded market. > Less work-around patces needed the better. And these people are often > bound to Windoze boxes - for different reasons. And the individual > developer may not be able to change this.
You still need a case-sensitive filesystem to be able to create a root filesystem for their embedded device. I think you'll find that issues surrounding caseful filenames in the kernel is the least of their problems.
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