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

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:

> Horms <horms@verge.net.au> 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.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>