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

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 10:18 -0700, josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:37:00AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 10/20/2014 02:48 PM, 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.
> > 
> > <bikeshed>
> > I believe these options ought to be CONFIG_SYSCALL_*
> > </bikeshed>
> 
> I agree.  I think people started using CONFIG_*_SYSCALL because of
> things like AUDITSYSCALL 

AUDITSYSCALL audits syscalls.  It doesn't actually implement any
syscalls.  You are right about SYSFS_SYSCALL though...

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