Bug#292516: kernel-source-2.6.10: Unable to mount vfat partition

[Sudarshana Koushik <sudarshan.n@gmail.com>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.10
Version: 2.6.10-4
Severity: important

I am unable to mount the fat32 partition in the kernel 2.6.10. However
this problem did not exist with 2.6.7 kernel. dmesg shows an error
saying Unable to load NLS charset cp437. I did try compiling the
codepage 437 both as a module as well as directly into the kernel.
Neither of them help. Moreover, I noticed that when I chose to compile
it as module, the codepage module does not appear in the deb package and
hence in the /lib/modules/2.6.10 directory!!  I am inserting the
relevant portions of the .config I use for the 2.6.10.

 # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
 #
 CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
 # CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
 CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
 CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
 # CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set

 #
 # Native Language Support
 #
 CONFIG_NLS=y
 CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m

-Sudarshan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7hibernate
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.10 depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-5     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-3    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 

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