On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:04:41 -0500 (EST) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:53:10 -0800 > > > It's not a "slippery slope"; it's been our standard practice for ages. > > We've never put an entire class of generic system calls behind > a config option. Try running an original MCC Linux binary and C lib on a current kernel We've put *entire binary formats* behind a config option. We've put older syscalls behind it, we've put sysfs behind it, sysctl behind it, the older microcode interfaces behind it, ISA bus as a concept behind options. VDSO, IPC, even 32bit support ... the list goes on and on. I'd say those were far more generic on the whole than splice/sendfile. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
