Hi, On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> More details on what the patch does: > > * Rewords the description of CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT, because at some point in the > past it confused some people > * Removes CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET, now CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT is used for > this purpose. This is because the correct setting of both must match the > user's locale > * Merges the two CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE and CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE options > into one, named CONFIG_CODEPAGE_DEFAULT. This is because the correct setting > of both must match the code page used by MS-DOS in the user's country. For the > same reason, CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT is removed (the only sane choice is "y") > * Makes the FAT filesystem accept both the old-style "codepage=866" mount > option (which is inconsistent with other filesystems requiring a codepage > option) and the new-style "codepage=cp866" option. This is necessary because > CONFIG_CODEPAGE_DEFAULT must work for all filesystems that use it > * Downgrades the UTF-8 FAT warning to a note, because, while using the utf8 > iocharset produces a case-sensitive FAT filesystem, other iocharsets simply > produce wrong characters, which is much worse > * Renames SMB_NLS_MAXNAMELEN to NLS_MAXNAMELEN, because it is also useful > outside smbfs > * Makes smbfs always output iocharset and codepage in /proc/mounts, as FAT > does > * Makes CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT and CONFIG_CODEPAGE_DEFAULT adjustable at runtime > via the following mechanisms: I agree that these parameters should be changable not just at compile time and the iocharset should be a global default, but the on disk encoding is often filesystem specific, so I'd rather keep this option per filesystem. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
