Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Support compiling out sendfile

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:24:22PM -0700, josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:48:37PM +0200, Pieter Smith wrote:
> > Many embedded systems will not need this syscall, and omitting it
> > saves space.  Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_SENDFILE_SYSCALL
> > (default y) to support compiling it out.
> 
> Nice work, thanks!
> 
> If there are no objections, and nobody has a tree they'd rather carry
> this through, I'll take the series through the tiny tree when it's ready
> to merge.

I think it's rather pointless - there is very little sendfile code,
so you'd rather want to disable splice.

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