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

["Simon Horman [Horms]" <horms@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:07:40AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 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.

Thanks