Re: [PATCH v21 18/30] ext4: Provide a splice-read stub

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat May 20 2023 - 00:12:39 EST


On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 01:00:37AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Provide a splice_read stub for Ext4. This does the inode shutdown check
> before proceeding. Splicing from DAX files and O_DIRECT fds is handled by
> the caller.

Not sure I'd call this a stub, but then again I'm not a native speaker.

The patch itself looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>