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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/56] fs: Macros to define splice file_operations
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:51:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113215139.GK7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415913813-362-5-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> Provides a CONFIG_SYSCALL_SPLICE compatible way of defining the .splice_read
> and .splice_write file_operations so that they can later be compiled out when
> the kernel is configured without the splice-family syscalls

This (and subsequent stuff making use of that) is bloody pointless.  You
save 2 words per file_operations instance, at the cost of making things
uglier and harder to grep.  NAK.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <pieter@boesman.nl>
     [not found] ` <1415913813-362-1-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl>
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 01/56] moved sendfile syscall to splice translation unit Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 02/56] moved kernel_write out of " Pieter Smith
     [not found]   ` <1415913813-362-1-git-send-email-pieter-qeJ+1H9vRZbz+pZb47iToQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13 21:22     ` [PATCH 03/56] fs: Support compiling out splice-family syscalls Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 04/56] fs: Macros to define splice file_operations Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:49     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-13 22:24       ` josh
2014-11-13 21:51     ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 07/56] fs/affs: support compiling out splice Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 09/56] fs/bad_inode: " Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:22   ` [PATCH 10/56] fs/block_dev: " Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:23   ` [PATCH 25/56] fs/hfs: " Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:23   ` [PATCH 26/56] fs/hfsplus: " Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:23   ` [PATCH 50/56] fs/read_write: " Pieter Smith
2014-11-13 21:23   ` [PATCH 56/56] fs/splice: full support for " Pieter Smith

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