Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 15:09:42 +0200
From: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols for splice in modules
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:52:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Unluckily, the drivers are currently distributed as out-of-tree modules.
We thought this patch might be useful anyway but if you prefer we can
also resubmit it the moment we decide to upstream the drivers.

Greetings,
  Christian
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