Hi Al,
I noticed that read/write/rdwr_pipe_fops are (1) const and
(2) exactly identical to xxx_fifo_fops, which are also const.
Attached patch #defines xxx_pipe_fops as aliases to xxx_fifo_fops.
Size difference:
# size linux-2.6.25-rc6*/*/pipe.o
text data bss dec hex filename
6534 144 0 6678 1a16 linux-2.6.25-rc6/fs/pipe.o
5862 144 0 6006 1776 linux-2.6.25-rc6-pt/fs/pipe.o
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vda