From: Jesper Juhl Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:50 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/ X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~660 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/ Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 index 59581a4b30..b81e109970 100644 --- a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen. Further thanks to Joel Katz Porfiri Claudio for patches to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and Heiko Eissfeldt for pointing out that -the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks. +the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks +(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()). (Acknowledgments from Ron Jeppesen in the 0.3 release:) Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt index f1d436993e..3cb39ade29 100644 --- a/Documentation/exception.txt +++ b/Documentation/exception.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ To protect itself the kernel has to verify this address. In older versions of Linux this was done with the int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) -function. +function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()). This function verified that the memory area starting at address addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 95e7443531..2e0a01b21f 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -66,14 +66,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney --------------------------- -What: remove verify_area() -When: July 2006 -Files: Various uaccess.h headers. -Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. -Who: Jesper Juhl - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005