linux-ext4 - Re: Change feature name from fname

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Date:   Thu, 02 May 2019 13:03:42 -0400
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change feature name from fname_encoding to casefold?

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> writes:

> Given how we've simplified how we handle Unicode --- in particular,
> not doing any kind of normalization unless we are doing case-folding
> compares, I think it will be more user-friendly if we rename the
> feature from fname_encoding to casefold.
>
> What do you think?  Any objections?

I don't object at all, but I'll need to update some test
packages/documentation already published to customers in order to change
it. So I'd need a final decision to be taken quickly on it. :)

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi