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Source: kernel-patch-fat-epoc |
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Section: admin |
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Priority: optional |
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Maintainer: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> |
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Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), dh-kpatches (>=0.5) |
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Standards-Version: 3.5.8 |
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Package: kernel-patch-fat-epoc |
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Architecture: all |
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Depends: ${kpatch:Depends} |
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Conflicts: kernel-patch-fat-old |
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Replaces: kernel-patch-fat-old |
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Description: Kernel patch to support EPOC FATs (like used on Psion PDAs) |
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In the FAT standard the end of the directory file index is marked by 00. |
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All entries after it should be ignored. The current FAT implementation |
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ignores such marked entries, but continues scanning the directory. This |
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is good enough for most FAT implementations, because they also mark all |
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remaining entries after the last with a 00 byte. |
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. |
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The filesystem implementation of EPOC 5 (and probably of newer versions |
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of EPOC) does not clear old entries after the end of the directory file |
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index. This means that without this patch, Linux will show old previously |
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deleted or even never assigned entries. |
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. |
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This package contains patches for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The 2.4 patch has |
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some known issues; the 2.6 kernel patches should always be safe. |