Re: [PATCH v17 07/14] splice: Do splice read from a file without using ITER_PIPE

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 14 2023 - 17:53:05 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Make cifs use generic_file_splice_read() rather than doing it for itself.
>
> Please split the cifs patch out into a separate one.

Okay - I've done that. It needs to go after this one and the unexport of
filemap_splice_read() needs to go with it (or in a separate follow-up patch).

David