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Commit 720a8459 authored by Jesper Juhl's avatar Jesper Juhl Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/ 



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

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 97de50c0

Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535

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@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen. Further thanks to Joel Katz 
Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches

to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and

Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> 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(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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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@@ -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function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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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@@ -66,14 +66,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> 


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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 <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>



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What:	IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,

	Connection Management Procedures driver

When:	November 2005