Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbWCaOAv (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751307AbWCaOAv (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:51 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:5305 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751304AbWCaOAv (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:51 -0500 Message-ID: <442D3608.8090906@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:40 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] splice exports References: <20060331040613.GA23511@havoc.gtf.org> <1143802879.3053.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060331110233.GM14022@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060331110233.GM14022@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-3.6 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 23 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules. >> >> since splice support is highly linux specific and new.. shouldn't these >> be _GPL exports? > > Yes they should, I'll add that to the current splice tree. Why? We don't usually restrict filesystems in such ways... I would rather a binary-only module reference generic_file_splice_read() than create its own. Jeff - 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/