Re: [PATCH 04/56] fs: Macros to define splice file_operations

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> Provides a CONFIG_SYSCALL_SPLICE compatible way of defining the .splice_read
> and .splice_write file_operations so that they can later be compiled out when
> the kernel is configured without the splice-family syscalls

This (and subsequent stuff making use of that) is bloody pointless.  You
save 2 words per file_operations instance, at the cost of making things
uglier and harder to grep.  NAK.
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