Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

From: tridge
Date: Sat May 02 2009 - 06:20:50 EST


OGAWA Hirofumi writes:
> I'll answer to only technical part. This patch creates different name
> internally, without renaming dcache. Are you really sure if that's ok?

The name handling should be the same as the existing code path where
goto shortname is done after vfat_create_shortname() in
vfat_build_slots() (ie. when the name conformed to 8.3).

What situation are you thinking of which this would cause a problem?

Cheers, Tridge
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