From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] splice exports
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442D3608.8090906@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060331110233.GM14022@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules.
>>
>> since splice support is highly linux specific and new.. shouldn't these
>> be _GPL exports?
>
> Yes they should, I'll add that to the current splice tree.
Why? We don't usually restrict filesystems in such ways... I would
rather a binary-only module reference generic_file_splice_read() than
create its own.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-31 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-31 4:06 [PATCH] splice exports Jeff Garzik
2006-03-31 7:17 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 11:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-31 11:02 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 14:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-03-31 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 23:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-01 1:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-02 18:02 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 13:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-31 13:31 ` Jens Axboe
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