On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: > I've never heard anyone complain about this, and I suspect that Miklos > found it from code inspection rather than experiencing an issue with it. Right, I found it by code inspection. > So while it can indeed be classified as a bug (and it is), the impact is > not huge. > > That said, I don't have a huge issue with shoving this in -stable. I > just don't think it's a big deal. I agree that it's not a huge issue, however it might be worth it to add it to -stable for the sake of distro kernels which are usually based on the long term stable branch. If new apps start to use the splice interface then we want those to work well on distros as well as the latest kernel.org kernels. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
