netdev - Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?

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Message-ID: <20200622120707.GA17620@salvia>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:07:07 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Cc:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> 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 .

Why rename this in 2020 ?