[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/

720a8459 · Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> · 2005-09-06 15:17:50 -07:00

Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function
from files in Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: 720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715
Parents: 97de50c0

Changes

3 files changed · +3 −10

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535	modified	+2	−1	View file
Documentation/exception.txt	modified	+1	−1	View file
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	modified	+0	−8	View file

Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535

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diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 b/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535
index 59581a4..b81e109 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 <[email protected]> for patches
 to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and
 Heiko Eissfeldt <[email protected]> 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+(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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

Documentation/exception.txt

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diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt
index f1d4369..3cb39ad 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+function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 95e7443..2e0a01b 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -66,14 +66,6 @@ Who:	Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-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 <[email protected]>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,
 	Connection Management Procedures driver
 When:	November 2005