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authorJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>2005-09-06 15:17:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:35 -0700
commit720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715 (patch)
treeab2730e53c4f6661184ab2685dbab8ee63f5e8f1 /Documentation
parent97de50c0add1e8f3b4e764c66a13c07235fee631 (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/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 59581a4b302..b81e109970a 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+(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 f1d436993eb..3cb39ade290 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+function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 95e74435312..2e0a01b21fe 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