From: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:10:32 -0800

I certainly sympathize with this concern, given the importance of software
portability.  However, the tiny-hardware alternative appears ot some sort
of special-purpose embedded OS, which most definitely will suffer from
software compatibility issues.  I guess that the good news is that much
of the tiny hardware that used to be 8 or 16 bits is now 32 bits, which
means that it has at least some chance of running some form of Linux.  ;-)

And then if some fundamental part of userland (glibc, klibc, etc.) finds
a useful way to use splice for a fundamental operation, we're back to
square one.

I simply do not agree with modifying the user facing interface, especially
one with decades of precedence.