From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols for splice in modules
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:52:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008125229.GA8647@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381235898-24186-1-git-send-email-christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:38:18PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> The symbols splice_to_pipe, splice_grow_spd and splice_shrink_spd are not
> currently exported from the kernel. This prevents the implementation of
> drivers using splice in modules not statically linked with the kernel. This
> patch exports those symbols to make it possible to implement splice in
> kernel modules.
Please submit these together with your drivers. In general it seems
a higher level interface should be exported anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 12:52 UTC|newest]
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2013-10-08 12:38 Christian Ruppert
2013-10-08 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-10-08 13:09 ` Christian Ruppert
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