Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fixup! qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes

2015-11-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/19/2015 06:32 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake writes: > >> [Replace the old commit message with this:] >> >> qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes >> >> However, we DO have to care about the fact that we have a >> command 'stop' and an event 'STOP' (currently the only case >> col

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fixup! qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes

2015-11-19 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake writes: > [Replace the old commit message with this:] > > qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes > > In general, designing user interfaces that rely on case > distinction is poor practice. Another benefit of enforcing > a restriction against case-insensitive clashes is that we > no lon

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fixup! qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes

2015-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
[Replace the old commit message with this:] qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes In general, designing user interfaces that rely on case distinction is poor practice. Another benefit of enforcing a restriction against case-insensitive clashes is that we no longer have to worry about the situati