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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 05/20] ntfs: Undeprecate iocharset= mount option
On Thursday 19 August 2021 04:21:08 Kari Argillander wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 06:24:38PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Other fs drivers are using iocharset= mount option for specifying charset.
> > So mark iocharset= mount option as preferred and deprecate nls= mount
> > option.
>
> One idea is also make this change to fs/fc_parser.c and then when we
> want we can drop support from all filesystem same time. This way we
> can get more deprecated code off the fs drivers. Draw back is that
> then every filesstem has this deprecated nls= option if it support
> iocharsets option. But that should imo be ok.

Beware that iocharset= is required only for fs which store filenames in
some specific encoding (in this case extension to UTF-16). For fs which
store filenames in raw bytes this option should not be parsed at all.

Therefore I'm not sure if this parsing should be in global
fs/fc_parser.c file...

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