Re: [PATCH 51/56] drivers/char/mem: support compiling out splice

[josh]

[Please don't top-post.]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:23:46PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> Okay with moving the relevant functions to a new translation unit and
> squashing it out in the Makefile

No, you don't need to do that either.  Mark pipe_to_null and
splice_write_null as __maybe_unused, then wrap the initialization of
.splice_write = splice_write_null to make it .splice_write =
splice_p(splice_write_null).  That will avoid adding a single ifdef.

- Josh Triplett
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