Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753385AbZF1WF2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:05:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752659AbZF1WFT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:05:19 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:48186 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106AbZF1WFT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:05:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:18 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: tridge@samba.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option Message-ID: <20090628220518.GB29896@shareable.org> References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <19014.56477.311713.975403@samba.org> <20090628215754.GA29896@shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 28 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2009-06-28 23:57, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >For those of us who don't want to omit the code, because we like > >compatibility and we're not in affected countries, or for research, it > >would be useful to have it as a mount option. > > > >So there should be these compile-time options: > > 2. CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES enabled: Create shortnames, unless > > mount option "dualnames=no" is given, in which case that mount > > behaves as if CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES is disabled. > > If you are not in an affected country, why would you even want > to disable dualnames? [ on a per-mount basis...] 1. To test it's behaviour, without changing the whole running system. 2. To produce disk images which are the same as would be produced in an affected country, or would be produced by a Linux distro adopting the behaviour. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/