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From:   Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
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Subject: Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?
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On Monday 2020-06-15 01:34, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
>> 
>> A header file rename is no problem. We even have dummy headers
> Hmm.. if I understand all of you correctly, David, Stefano, Pablo and Al say
> like no, not a good idea, but only you, Jan, say like should be no problem.
>
> Jan, do you have anything like commit messages in mainline or public emails
> from maintainers confirming your opinion?

I had already given the commit with the (email) message:

>> Just look at xt_MARK.h, all it does is include xt_mark.h. Cf.
>> 28b949885f80efb87d7cebdcf879c99db12c37bd .