Re: [PATCH 1/7] tmpfs: clone shmem_file_splice_read

[Jens Axboe]

On 2011-06-10 00:32, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Copy __generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_splice_read()
> from fs/splice.c to shmem_file_splice_read() in mm/shmem.c.  Make
> page_cache_pipe_buf_ops and spd_release_page() accessible to it.

That's a lot of fairly complicated and convoluted code to have
duplicated. Yes, I know I know, it's already largely duplicated from the
normal file read, but still... Really no easy way to share this?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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