[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497463: hal: kernel ntfs driver does not support locale= option, KDE fails to mount ntfs volumes

[Martin Pitt]

Michael Biebl [2008-09-01 23:25 +0200]:
> There was a commit to hal [1] which allows to set the locale option, without 
> taking into account, that in-kernel ntfs does not support this option.

That was actually done, but since merely *allowing* an option to be
specified does not mean that it's done by default, I don't see why
this commit should hurt anything.

Thus disallowing the option again, as done in
56_revert_ntfs_locale_mount_option.patch is a regression for everyone
using ntfs-3g (which also works in Debian, FWIW, this is *not* an
Ubuntu-ism).

If something in the KDE mount process supplies the locale option, but
doesn't check if it is actually allowed, then we should either

 - fix the KDE automounter to check, or
 - fix the hal backend to ignore a given locale= if the in-kernel
   driver is used (which is probably the more correct solution)

Martin
-- 
Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)