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author | Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> | 2005-09-06 18:17:50 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-07 19:57:35 -0400 |
commit | 720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715 (patch) | |
tree | ab2730e53c4f6661184ab2685dbab8ee63f5e8f1 /Documentation | |
parent | 97de50c0add1e8f3b4e764c66a13c07235fee631 (diff) |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/exception.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 index 59581a4b302a..b81e109970aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 | |||
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen. Further thanks to Joel Katz | |||
68 | Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches | 68 | Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches |
69 | to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and | 69 | to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and |
70 | Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that | 70 | Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that |
71 | the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks. | 71 | the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks |
72 | (note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()). | ||
72 | 73 | ||
73 | (Acknowledgments from Ron Jeppesen in the 0.3 release:) | 74 | (Acknowledgments from Ron Jeppesen in the 0.3 release:) |
74 | Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which | 75 | Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which |
diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt index f1d436993eb1..3cb39ade290e 100644 --- a/Documentation/exception.txt +++ b/Documentation/exception.txt | |||
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ To protect itself the kernel has to verify this address. | |||
7 | 7 | ||
8 | In older versions of Linux this was done with the | 8 | In older versions of Linux this was done with the |
9 | int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) | 9 | int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) |
10 | function. | 10 | function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()). |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | This function verified that the memory area starting at address | 12 | This function verified that the memory area starting at address |
13 | addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified | 13 | 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 95e744353120..2e0a01b21fe0 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> | |||
66 | 66 | ||
67 | --------------------------- | 67 | --------------------------- |
68 | 68 | ||
69 | What: remove verify_area() | ||
70 | When: July 2006 | ||
71 | Files: Various uaccess.h headers. | ||
72 | Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. | ||
73 | Who: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> | ||
74 | |||
75 | --------------------------- | ||
76 | |||
77 | What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, | 69 | What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, |
78 | Connection Management Procedures driver | 70 | Connection Management Procedures driver |
79 | When: November 2005 | 71 | When: November 2005 |