Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268799AbUJPTo6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:44:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268819AbUJPTmc (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:42:32 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:25362 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268799AbUJPTkL (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:40:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:40:01 +0100 From: Russell King To: Dan Kegel , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis 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)?) Message-ID: <20041016204001.B20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Kegel , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis References: <414FC41B.7080102@kegel.com> <58517.194.237.142.24.1095763849.squirrel@194.237.142.24> <4164DAC9.8080701@kegel.com> <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041016200627.A20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20041016212440.GA8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20041016212440.GA8765@mars.ravnborg.org>; from sam@ravnborg.org on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:24:40PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1757 Lines: 40 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. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/