* key here is the 'actor' worker passed in that actually moves the data
  * to the wanted destination. See pipe_to_file/pipe_to_sendpage above.
  */
-static ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
-                                 struct file *out, loff_t *ppos, size_t len,
-                                 unsigned int flags, splice_actor *actor)
+ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+                          struct file *out, loff_t *ppos, size_t len,
+                          unsigned int flags, splice_actor *actor)
 {
        int ret, do_wakeup, err;
        struct splice_desc sd;
 
        return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__splice_from_pipe);
 
 ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
                         loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags,
 
                                loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int,
                                splice_actor *);
 
+extern ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *,
+                                 loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int,
+                                 splice_actor *);
+
 #endif