[CC += linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Zach, Since this is a kernel-user-space API change, please CC linux-api@. The kernel source file Documentation/SubmitChecklist notes that all Linux kernel patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so that the various parties who are interested in API changes are informed. For further information, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html Thanks, Michael On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Here's my current attempt at the most basic system call interface for > offloading copying between files. The system call and vfs function > are relatively light wrappers around the file_operation method that > does the heavy lifting. > > There was interest at LSF in getting the basic infrastructure merged > before worrying about adding behavioural flags and more complicated > implementations. This series only offers a refactoring of the btrfs > clone ioctl as an example of an implementation of the file > copy_file_range method. > > I've added support for copy_file_range() to xfs_io in xfsprogs and > have the start of an xfstest that tests the system call. I'll send > those to fstests@. > > So how does this look? > > Do we want to merge this and let the NFS and block XCOPY patches add > their changes when they're ready? > > - z > > -- > 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
