From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Pieter Smith" <pieter@boesman.nl>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Support compiling out sendfile
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:20:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413912030.2350.2.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141021171814.GA14704@cloud>
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 10:18 -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:37:00AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 10/20/2014 02:48 PM, Pieter Smith wrote:
> > > Many embedded systems will not need this syscall, and omitting it
> > > saves space. Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_SENDFILE_SYSCALL
> > > (default y) to support compiling it out.
> >
> > <bikeshed>
> > I believe these options ought to be CONFIG_SYSCALL_*
> > </bikeshed>
>
> I agree. I think people started using CONFIG_*_SYSCALL because of
> things like AUDITSYSCALL
AUDITSYSCALL audits syscalls. It doesn't actually implement any
syscalls. You are right about SYSFS_SYSCALL though...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-21 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-20 21:48 [PATCH 1/2] fs: Moved sendfile syscall to own source file Pieter Smith
2014-10-20 21:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Support compiling out sendfile Pieter Smith
2014-10-20 22:24 ` josh
2014-10-21 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-21 9:04 ` Josh Triplett
2014-10-21 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-21 9:50 ` Josh Triplett
[not found] ` <54467D9C.2030302@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20141021171814.GA14704@cloud>
2014-10-21 17:20 ` Eric Paris [this message]
2014-10-20 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: Moved sendfile syscall to own source file josh
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