On Wednesday 2009-07-08 09:42, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >What I said in the patch help text is: > > That means that long filenames created with this option > disabled will not be accessible at all to operating systems > that do not understand the VFAT extensions. > >that means you have to choose 8.3 names if you want to copy files onto >a SD card and have those files visible to digital cameras. That is not >actually much of a change from how things behave without my patch for >current 8.3 only cameras. As Jan discovered, cameras tend to be pretty >fussy about the format of the filenames for files. His particular >camera wants the filenames to be dscfNNNN.jpg, which means that he >needed to be careful about choosing file names with current kernels as >well. In the large picture, the problem is not so much about devices that restrict themselves to 8.3, such as DCIM-compatible cameras. They "only" accept 8.3, so there is no point in trying to use a long name because the software won't look for it in the first place. It is much more with devices that are commonly operated with long names - multimedia players come to mind - and these "always" want a valid 8.3. >> Perhaps camera vendors fear patents, too. > >quite likely they want to minimise their costs, and not paying for a >patent license they don't need is one way to do that. Well and there's always some vendors (the more so the one-product vendors) not paying the royalities they are supposed to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
