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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] net/core: support compiling out splice
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:07:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141122230731.GC24429@thin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPho-_+GV+2sVVxGsPSjvE3heEoGa4chbqrmnxLAr_p7RU=TDQ@mail.gmail.com>

[Please don't top-post.]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:50:51PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> splice exports a structure that is used by skbuf. Mocking out a function is
> straightforward. To my knowledge there is no elegant way of mocking out a
> splice_operations struct. I directly modified the code to prevent linking
> against the struct. Do you know of a better technique to get the same
> result?

No, I don't.  The approach you took seems fine; I'm just saying that you
need to explain the need for it in the commit message.

- JosH Triplett

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-22 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1416690001-20817-1-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl>
2014-11-22 21:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] net/core: support compiling out splice Pieter Smith
2014-11-22 21:48   ` Josh Triplett
     [not found]     ` <CAPho-_+GV+2sVVxGsPSjvE3heEoGa4chbqrmnxLAr_p7RU=TDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-22 23:07       ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2014-11-23 14:20 [PATCH 0/6] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile) Pieter Smith
     [not found] ` <1416752468-1626-1-git-send-email-pieter-qeJ+1H9vRZbz+pZb47iToQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-23 14:20   ` [PATCH 5/6] net/core: support compiling out splice Pieter Smith

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