[PATCH] UBUNTU: Include nls_cp437 module in virtual for fat

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Wed Mar 16 14:31:00 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:49:37AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> The virtual flavor only ships whitelisted modules including the fat and
> vfat modules, but because it doesn't include any codepage modules
> (nls_cp*) FAT support is useless.  Include the default codepage
> (nls_cp437) in virtual to allow mounting FAT filesystems.
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735240

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732046

> Signed-off-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier at linaro.org>
> ---
>  debian.master/control.d/virtual.inclusion-list |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/virtual.inclusion-list b/debian.master/control.d/virtual.inclusion-list
> index 043d576..e2b529c 100644
> --- a/debian.master/control.d/virtual.inclusion-list
> +++ b/debian.master/control.d/virtual.inclusion-list
> @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ fs/btrfs/*
>  fs/configfs/*
>  fs/exportfs/*
>  fs/fat/*
> +fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko
>  fs/isofs/*
>  fs/cifs/*
>  fs/xfs/*

I suspect this should be in alphabetical order.  (Both of the these can
be fixed as this is applied, no need to resend.)

I am inclined to say that if fat is useless without at least this code
page, that it is worth including otherwise you cannot mount install media
within a virtual instance.  So it seems appropriate to pull this in for
Natty.

-apw




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