fat: add config option to set UTF-8 mount option by default
FAT has long supported its own default file name encoding config
setting, separate from CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
However, if UTF-8 encoded file names are desired FAT character set
should not be set to utf8 since this would make file names case
sensitive even if case insensitive matching is requested. Instead,
"utf8" mount options should be provided to enable UTF-8 file names in
FAT file system.
Unfortunately, there was no possibility to set the default value of this
option so on UTF-8 system "utf8" mount option had to be added manually
to most FAT mounts.
This patch adds config option to set such default value.
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/fat/Kconfig b/fs/fat/Kconfig
index 182f9ff..3ff1772 100644
--- a/fs/fat/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/fat/Kconfig
@@ -93,8 +93,24 @@
that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
- If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
+ If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here - select the next option
+ instead if you would like to use UTF-8 encoded file names by default.
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
Enable any character sets you need in File Systems/Native Language
Support.
+
+config FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8
+ bool "Enable FAT UTF-8 option by default"
+ depends on VFAT_FS
+ default n
+ help
+ Set this if you would like to have "utf8" mount option set
+ by default when mounting FAT filesystems.
+
+ Even if you say Y here can always disable UTF-8 for
+ particular mount by adding "utf8=0" to mount options.
+
+ Say Y if you use UTF-8 encoding for file names, N otherwise.
+
+ See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.