# \[PATCH v3 37/55\] Remove file-\>f\_op-\>sendpage

- From: David Howells \<dhowells@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2023-03-31 16:24:44 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/03/246723
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/03/246680/t.md

```text
Remove file->f_op->sendpage as splicing to a socket now calls sendmsg
rather than sendpage.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: <redacted>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f3ccc243851e..a9f1b2543d2c 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1773,7 +1773,6 @@ struct file_operations {
 	int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync);
 	int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
 	int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
-	ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
 	unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
 	int (*check_flags)(int);
 	int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);

```