Jens Axboe wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules.
since splice support is highly linux specific and new.. shouldn't these
be _GPL exports?
Yes they should, I'll add that to the current splice tree.
Why? We don't usually restrict filesystems in such ways... I would
rather a binary-only module reference generic_file_splice_read() than
create its own.
You could use that very same argument for any piece of the kernel, then,
so I don't think that adds much value to _not_ exporting it GPL.
Not really, because I'm considering the Real World(tm) users, not
abstract theory :) The other filesystem junk is exported non-GPL, and
existing binary-only filesystems use that stuff.
IOW its a bit rude to say "oh you can have your BO filesystem, just not
splice support."
Jeff
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