I 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 take the patch back, please expect V2. It needs some work WRT hfs and
ncpfs filesystems, as well as an improvement in handling of iocharset=utf8
in the fat filesystem.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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