From 720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:17:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [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 <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 | 3 ++- Documentation/exception.txt | 2 +- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 -------- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 index 59581a4b302af..b81e109970aa8 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 <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> 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 +the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks +(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 f1d436993eb15..3cb39ade290ea 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 +function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 95e7443531209..2e0a01b21fe04 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -66,14 +66,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> --------------------------- -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 <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 -- GitLab