RE: [PATCH v10 11/14] exfat: add Kconfig and Makefile

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> > +config EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
> > +	string "Default iocharset for exFAT"
> > +	default "utf8"
> > +	depends on EXFAT_FS
> > +	help
> > +	  Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
> > +	  like exFAT to use. It should probably match the character set
> > +	  that most of your exFAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
> > +	  with the "iocharset" mount option for exFAT filesystems.
> 
> Hello! This description is incorrect. iocharset option specify what
> character set is expected by VFS layer and not character set used by exFAT
> filesystem. exFAT filesystem always uses UTF-16 as this is the only
> allowed by exFAT specification.
Hi Pali,

Could you please review updated description ?

diff --git a/fs/exfat/Kconfig b/fs/exfat/Kconfig
index 9eeaa6d06..f2b0cf2c1 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/exfat/Kconfig
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ config EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
        default "utf8"
        depends on EXFAT_FS
        help
-         Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
-         like exFAT to use. It should probably match the character set
-         that most of your exFAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
-         with the "iocharset" mount option for exFAT filesystems.
+         Set this to the default input/output character set to use for
+         converting between the encoding is used for user visible filename and
+         UTF-16 character that exfat filesystem use. and can be overridden with
+         the "iocharset" mount option for exFAT filesystems.





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