Re: Bug#333776: linux-2.6: vfat driver in 2.6.12 is not properly case-insensitive

From: Simon Horman [Horms]
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 23:01:27 EST


On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:07:40AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> static struct nls_table table = {
> >> .charset = "utf8",
> >> .uni2char = uni2char,
> >> .char2uni = char2uni,
> >> .charset2lower = identity, /* no conversion */
> >> .charset2upper = identity,
> >> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> >> };
> >>
> >> I guess it is charset2lower or charset2upper that vfat is calling,
> >> which make no conversion, thus leading to the problem I outlined above.
> >>
> >> My question is: Is this behaviour correct, or is it a bug?
> >
> > This is known bug. For fixing this bug cleanly, we will need to much
> > change the both of nls and filesystems.
>
> And fatfs has "utf8" option, probably the behavior is preferable than
> "iocharset=utf8". However, unfortunately "utf8" has problem too.

Thanks
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