Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754141Ab3JHMwi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:52:38 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:40859 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050Ab3JHMwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:52:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:52:29 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christian Ruppert Cc: Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols for splice in modules Message-ID: <20131008125229.GA8647@infradead.org> References: <1381235898-24186-1-git-send-email-christian.ruppert@abilis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1381235898-24186-1-git-send-email-christian.ruppert@abilis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 15 On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:38:18PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote: > The symbols splice_to_pipe, splice_grow_spd and splice_shrink_spd are not > currently exported from the kernel. This prevents the implementation of > drivers using splice in modules not statically linked with the kernel. This > patch exports those symbols to make it possible to implement splice in > kernel modules. Please submit these together with your drivers. In general it seems a higher level interface should be exported anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/