From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751315AbVH2V0H (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751306AbVH2VYi (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:24:38 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.195]:1864 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751318AbVH2VYG (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:24:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=N5Ve1Ztn7sisvUXnSUHAd0QsDxLpSsxjsYPQW9sUnf7a+PaBEQoiqiashDqzUoRIVoABhy+XZBV1OU1YNBV57ngQK6rKeZW+y0Iov8jsjfWAbMCeq72EY6yVQogVNFopZciTijImoUa2vdSFnLBsyUKtaErvyqCVjBO1S/L6TNA= From: Jesper Juhl To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 2/3] remove verify_area() - remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:25:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: "linux-kernel" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508292325.07967.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 | 3 ++- Documentation/exception.txt | 2 +- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 -------- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -upr -X ./linux-2.6.13/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt linux-2.6.13/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-08-29 03:37:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -74,14 +74,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 diff -upr -X ./linux-2.6.13/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 linux-2.6.13/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 --- linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 2005-08-29 03:36:21.000000000 +0200 @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen. Further tha Porfiri Claudio for patches to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and Heiko Eissfeldt 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 -upr -X ./linux-2.6.13/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/exception.txt linux-2.6.13/Documentation/exception.txt --- linux-2.6.13-orig/Documentation/exception.txt 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13/Documentation/exception.txt 2005-08-29 03:37:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ To protect itself the kernel has to veri 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