From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove a couple final references to obsolete verify_area().
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:26:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108092619.3efb86f8@dhcp-252-105.norway.atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701071839560.18341@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:43:41 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Remove a couple final references to the obsolete verify_area() call,
> which was long ago replaced by access_ok().
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
> it *appears* that these last two references can be removed, unless
> there's something really strange i'm not seeing here.
The kernel builds and boots fine after applying this patch, so I think
verify_area is indeed unused. If it breaks something outside of
mainline, I guess it's about time we get it fixed.
Thanks,
Haavard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-08 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-07 23:43 Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-08 8:26 ` Haavard Skinnemoen [this message]
2007-01-08 10:03 ` Jesper Juhl
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