[RFC PATCH] nouveau: rename aux.c to auxiliary.c for reviewing it on Windows

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Wed Jun 11 01:24:25 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:53:55PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> When I tried to review the linux kernel on Windows in my laptop
> and incidentally found that it failed to open the aux.c.
> 
> And Microsoft tells me:
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx)
> 
> > Do not use the following reserved names for the name of a file:
> > CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, <snip...>, and LPT9. Also avoid these names
> > followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt
> > is not recommended.
> 
> The name "aux" is listed above. And it sometimes makes sense to
> review linux on windows, so we rename the aux.c to auxiliary.c.

I think you missed April 1st by more than 2 months.

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