linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 05/20] ntfs: Undeprecate iocharset= mount option

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Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:12:22 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
        "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@...nel.org>,
        Salah Triki <salah.triki@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Marek Behún <marek.behun@....cz>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [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...