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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:26:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: Splicing to/from a tty
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:58 AM Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> > I think just wiring up iter_file_splice_write would work.  Al?
>
> Seems to work for the simple test case that I had, at least:

Mind sending me a signed-off patch for this?

Yeah, I know it's a trivial one-liner, but I much prefer having an
author with a patch and a sign-off to just doing it personally and
reaping all that glory for it..

           Linus