Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:28:50 -0800 | From | josh@joshtrip ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/56] fs/ext4: support compiling out splice |
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:22:57PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote: > Compile out splice support from ext4 when the splice-family of syscalls is not > supported by the system (i.e. CONFIG_SYSCALL_SPLICE is undefined). > > Signed-off-by: Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>
See below; you shouldn't need this or similar patches for most filesystems at all.
> fs/ext4/file.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c > index aca7b24..c9d2962 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/file.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c > @@ -595,8 +595,8 @@ const struct file_operations ext4_file_operations = { > .open = ext4_file_open, > .release = ext4_release_file, > .fsync = ext4_sync_file, > - .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, > - .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write, > + SPLICE_READ_INIT(generic_file_splice_read) > + SPLICE_WRITE_INIT(iter_file_splice_write)
You can just define iter_file_splice_write as NULL when configuring out splice. You could almost do the same for generic_file_splice_read, but a couple of implementations of filesystem-specific splice functions actually call it; you can make it a no-op static inline, though.
- Josh Triplett
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