From: Chris Smowton <cs448@cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Splice(): exports for module programmers
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:43:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4786D7E5.2080701@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
Just a couple of quick questions if anyone can shed light regarding
functions exported for modules relating to splice():
* Is there a particular reason why the useful helper __splice_from_pipe
is exported, but not the locking equivalent splice_from_pipe or its
equally useful helper splice_to_pipe?
* Similarly is there anything wrong with exporting the generic
pipe-buffer operations (e.g. generic_pipe_buf_map) to save effort
writing modules which implement splice_read and splice_write?
Are these unexported because they are unstable and not yet considered
suitable for use, or simply because nobody's written a module that
splice()s yet?
Chris
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2008-01-11 2:43 Chris Smowton [this message]
2008-01-11 9:06 ` Splice(): exports for module programmers Jens Axboe
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