linux-ext4 - Re: Change feature name from fname

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Date:   Thu, 02 May 2019 17:46:33 -0400
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change feature name from fname_encoding to casefold?

"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 12:25:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> 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.
>
> TBH /me hadn't done enough reviewing even to notice the feature was
> named 'fname_encoding' (whatever that means -- encoded how?).
> IMHO 'casefold' is more descriptive about what the feature provides
> (folding case for directory name comparisons, right?)
>

This name was accurate until the v6 of the patches.  In v7, we decided
to no longer apply file name encoding normalization system-wide during
lookups, which changed the semantics of this feature flag.  By that
time, though, the name was already committed to e2fsprogs, so i didn't
bother to change it.

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi