From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932206AbXAHIue (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:50:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932233AbXAHIue (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:50:34 -0500 Received: from nat-132.atmel.no ([80.232.32.132]:65409 "EHLO relay.atmel.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932206AbXAHIud (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:50:33 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1448 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:50:32 EST Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:26:19 +0100 From: Haavard Skinnemoen To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove a couple final references to obsolete verify_area(). Message-ID: <20070108092619.3efb86f8@dhcp-252-105.norway.atmel.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Atmel Norway X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:43:41 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" 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 Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen > 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