linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Fix litmus-tests's file names for case-insensitive filesystem.

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Message-ID: <a9f0858b-6c05-4c7b-8677-8f635a025a05@paulmck-laptop>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:43:31 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Szőke Benjamin <egyszeregy@...email.hu>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@...il.com, will@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, npiggin@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
	j.alglave@....ac.uk, luc.maranget@...ia.fr, akiyks@...il.com,
	dlustig@...dia.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	lkmm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Fix litmus-tests's file names for
 case-insensitive filesystem.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Szőke Benjamin wrote:
> 2024. 11. 12. 2:02 keltezéssel, Boqun Feng írta:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 12:21:51AM +0100, Sz"oke Benjamin wrote:
> > > 2024. 11. 11. 23:00 keltezéssel, Linus Torvalds írta:
> > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 13:15, Sz"oke Benjamin <egyszeregy@...email.hu> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > There is a technical issue in the Linux kernel source tree's file naming/styles
> > > > > in git clone command on case-insensitive filesystem.
> > > > 
> > > > No.
> > > > 
> > > > This is entirely your problem.
> > > > 
> > > > The kernel build does not work, and is not intended to work on broken setups.
> > > > 
> > > > If you have a case-insensitive filesystem, you get to keep both broken parts.
> > > > 
> > > > I actively hate case-insensitive filesystems. It's a broken model in
> > > > so many ways. I will not lift a finger to try to help that
> > > > braindamaged setup.
> > > > 
> > > > "Here's a nickel, Kid. Go buy yourself a real computer"
> > > > 
> > > >                Linus
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In this patch my goal is to improve Linux kernel codebase to able to
> > > edit/coding in any platform, in an IDE which has a modern GUI.
> > > 
> > > Chillout, i am not so stupid to compile kernel on this "braindamaged setup",
> > > I just like to edit the code and manage it by git commands.
> > > 
> > 
> > Then you just need to create a case-sensitive partition, no? What's the
> > *technical* issue of doing that? And that cannot be more challenging
> > than testing your kernel changes, right? So it won't raise the bar of a
> > potential serious kernel contributer.
> 
> It is easy to say just need a case-sensitive partition, and sure it can be
> configurable but for example on Windows, admin rights needed for it, which
> is not available in 90% for a workstation machine in an universitiy or a
> general company.

Or, as Boqun suggested, one of these websites:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11/source
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master
https://lxr.linux.no/

And quite a few more.  They have at least some of the IDE-provided
cross-referencing capabilities, though I must confess that I still use
cscope and vi.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul