Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And who is using filemap_splice_read directly anyway? I can't find a > modular user in any of the branches. Fair point. I have a subset of the patches on my iov-cifs branch that doesn't make the change to generic_file_read_splice(), but rather does that bit in cifs.ko - that does require access to filemap_splice_read(). David