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

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Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:42:44 -0800
From:	josh@...htriplett.org
To:	Pieter Smith <pieter@...sman.nl>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 51/56] drivers/char/mem: support compiling out splice

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:46:59PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> Turning all exported splice functions into static inline NOP's covers
> almost everything...
> fs/fuse and net/skbuf use an exported ops struct from fs/splice.c. Mocking
> out an exported ops struct seems way uglier than linking out the
> dependencies with a __splice_p() macro and __maybe_unused.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

You could make FUSE select SPLICE_SYSCALL.

For skbuff, what's the dependency?  Ideally NET shouldn't select
SPLICE_SYSCALL.  You might try compiling out *only* that particular
instance, and seeing how clean you can make that.

- Josh Triplett
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