Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:00:40 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice exports |
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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
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