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

Lai Jiangshan laijs at cn.fujitsu.com
Wed Jun 11 19:39:30 PDT 2014


On 06/11/2014 04:24 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.
> 

EVERY DAY IS APRIL FIRST if you fool others' convenience.


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