From: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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 15:09:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008130941.GB24735@ab42.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131008125229.GA8647@infradead.org>
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:52:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Unluckily, the drivers are currently distributed as out-of-tree modules.
We thought this patch might be useful anyway but if you prefer we can
also resubmit it the moment we decide to upstream the drivers.
Greetings,
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 13:10 UTC|newest]
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2013-10-08 12:38 Christian Ruppert
2013-10-08 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-08 13:09 ` Christian Ruppert [this message]
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