Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754468AbaJUHwe (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:52:34 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:48009 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753430AbaJUHwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:52:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:51:54 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: Pieter Smith , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Eric Paris , Matt Turner , Michal Hocko , "Paul E. McKenney" , Fabian Frederick , Tejun Heo , ????????? , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Peter Foley , Konstantin Khlebnikov , "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Oleg Nesterov , Andy Lutomirski , David Herrmann , Kees Cook , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, open list , "open list:ABI/API" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Support compiling out sendfile Message-ID: <20141021075154.GB10020@infradead.org> References: <1413841728-1313-1-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl> <1413841728-1313-2-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl> <20141020222421.GE8929@cloud> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141020222421.GE8929@cloud> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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 On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:24:22PM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:48:37PM +0200, Pieter Smith wrote: > > Many embedded systems will not need this syscall, and omitting it > > saves space. Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_SENDFILE_SYSCALL > > (default y) to support compiling it out. > > Nice work, thanks! > > If there are no objections, and nobody has a tree they'd rather carry > this through, I'll take the series through the tiny tree when it's ready > to merge. I think it's rather pointless - there is very little sendfile code, so you'd rather want to disable splice. -- 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/