Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #17053, comment 1

Ticket #17053, comment 1

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5	5	Kernel versions prior to 2.6.31 do not provide a default handler for (splice_read / sendfile) and will return an error if sendfile is used. That kernel is now 8 years old. Linux Kernel 2.6.32 was an LTS release for which support ended in February 2016. This patch will break sendfile support for earlier kernels, but it can be argued that the existing support via the generic_file_* functions was broken as it returns stale data for those kernels.
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7		I see little point in supporting kernels prior to 2.6.31, especially since support for the 2.6.32 LTS release has ended and is none the less is still supported by this patch.
	7	I see little point in supporting kernels prior to 2.6.31, especially since support for the 2.6.32 LTS release has ended and is none the less still supported by this patch.