Re: [PATCH][0/10] verify_area cleanup

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:07AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Now that 2.6.11 is out the door it's time to try and submit this again.
> The following patches convert all users of verify_area to access_ok and 
> the final patch then deprecates verify_area acros all archs with the 
> intention of removing it completely later. These patches get rid of 99+% 
> of all users, there's still one or two macros left using it and there are 
> still a few comments left refering to it that could be cleaned up - I'll 
> get to those, but what remains after these patches is extremely little.
> The reason for doing this is that verify_area is just a wrapper for 
> access_ok anyway, so there's no good reason to keep it around - access_ok 
> also seems more readable anyway with saner return values.
> Since these patches touch things all over the tree the CC list would be 
> enormous if I CC'd everyone involved on all patches, so I'll just CC this 
> initial mail to a few key people I think are relevant (I hope I got that 
> list right), and the actual patches I'll just send to linux-kernel and 
> Andrew (or directly to people who ask for that).

The execution at first glance appears good. Out of curiosity, does this
serve a larger purpose than eliminating a redundant API?


-- wli