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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:47:14 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens@axboe.dk>
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To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/splice: export splice_to_pipe to modules
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On 2011-12-02 13:43, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> The LTTng driver needs this symbol exported because it implements its
> own splice actor.
> 
> All other exports in splice are EXPORT_SYMBOL(), so follow the local
> trend by not using a _GPL() export.

Thanks, that makes more sense to me.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Jens Axboe