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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cdrom/sonycd5353
-rw-r--r--Documentation/exception.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt8
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
68Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches 68Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches
69to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and 69to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and
70Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that 70Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that
71the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks. 71the 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72(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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:)
74Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which 75Thanks 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
8In older versions of Linux this was done with the 8In older versions of Linux this was done with the
9int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) 9int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size)
10function. 10function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).
11 11
12This function verified that the memory area starting at address 12This function verified that the memory area starting at address
13addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified 13addr 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
69What: remove verify_area()
70When: July 2006
71Files: Various uaccess.h headers.
72Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead.
73Who: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
74
75---------------------------
76
77What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, 69What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,
78 Connection Management Procedures driver 70 Connection Management Procedures driver
79When: November 2005 71When: November 2005