Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:04:22 -0700 | From | Josh Triplett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Support compiling out sendfile |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:51:54AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:24:22PM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org 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.
That's the plan, but since sendfile depends on some of the splice bits, sendfile needs to be optional as well; SENDFILE_SYSCALL will then select SPLICE_SYSCALLS.
- Josh Triplett
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