From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [rfc patch 2/4] splice: remove steal from pipe_buf_operations Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:01:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20080624080152.GI20851@kernel.dk> References: <20080621154607.154640724@szeredi.hu> <20080621154724.203822363@szeredi.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:15463 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbYFXIB4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080621154724.203822363@szeredi.hu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jun 21 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi > > The 'steal' operation hasn't been used for some time. Remove it and > the associated dead code. If it's needed in the future, it can always > be easily restored. I'd rather not just remove this, it's basically waiting for Nick to make good on his promise to make stealing work again (he disabled it). -- Jens Axboe