Re: [PATCH v14 11/14] exfat: add Kconfig and Makefile

[Pali RohÃr]

On Monday 06 April 2020 09:27:01 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I tried to do it myself:
> 
>           Set this to the default input/output character set to use for
>           converting between the encoding that is used for user visible
>           filenames, and the UTF-16 character set that the exFAT filesystem
>           uses.  This can be overridden with the "iocharset" mount option for
>           the exFAT filesystems.
> 
> but then I got puzzled by the _3_ encodings that are part of it:
>   1. the default input/output character set to use for conversion,
>   2. encoding that is used for user visible filenames,
>   3. UTF-16 character set that the exFAT filesystem uses.
> I assume 1 == 2, but there may be more to it?

It is encoding between user visible filenames in VFS and UTF-16, so 1 == 2.