Re: [PATCH] Export symbols for splice in modules

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 08 2013 - 08:52:41 EST


On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:38:18PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> The symbols splice_to_pipe, splice_grow_spd and splice_shrink_spd are not
> currently exported from the kernel. This prevents the implementation of
> drivers using splice in modules not statically linked with the kernel. This
> patch exports those symbols to make it possible to implement splice in
> kernel modules.

Please submit these together with your drivers. In general it seems
a higher level interface should be exported anyway.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/