From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266659AbUBLWml (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:42:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266666AbUBLWml (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:42:41 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18410 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266659AbUBLWmk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:42:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:44:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: shaggy@austin.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] JFS: sane file name handling (0 of 2) Message-Id: <20040212144428.05b16695.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200402122056.i1CKut1t006255@kleikamp.dyn.webahead.ibm.com> References: <200402122056.i1CKut1t006255@kleikamp.dyn.webahead.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org shaggy@austin.ibm.com wrote: > > Please apply the following patches to -mm. The first is just a cleanup, but > the second one changes the default translation of filenames into unicode. > > There have been several complaints about the way that JFS tries to interpret > the character set of the file names rather than just treating them as strings > of bytes. This patch makes the default behavior the "string of bytes" > treatment, while still allowing the charset-specific behavior with the > iocharset mount option. > > I don't believe it will cause anyone too much trouble, but it should probably > spend a little time in -mm before hitting the mainline. Sure. Please send them on to Linus as a bk pull when you're happy with them. > # Due to its roots in OS/2, JFS has always tried to convert pathnames > # into unicode. No..... It came from UnixWare. I know - I read it on the internet.