On 11/10/2015 10:38 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:53:29PM -0500, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>> Copy system calls came up during Plumbers a while ago, mostly because several
>> filesystems (including NFS and XFS) are currently working on copy 
>> acceleration
>> implementations.  We haven't heard from Zach Brown in a while, so I 
>> volunteered
>> to push his patches upstream so individual filesystems don't need to keep
>> writing their own ioctls.
> 
> OK, taken for the next cycle.  FWIW, I'm going to toss COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
> counterpart in as well - right now it's doing only native, AFAICS.
> 

Thanks, Al!
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