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Convert sendfile to splice

From:		Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To:		linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:		[PATCH 0/18] Convert sendfile to splice
Date:		Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:57:56 +0200
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

Hi,

This series of splice patches removes file_operations ->sendfile()
from the kernel and converts do_sendfile() to use ->splice_read()
to achieve the same function.

-- 
Jens Axboe