From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 | 3 ++- Documentation/exception.txt | 2 +- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 ------- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 --- devel/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen. Further tha 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 +the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks +(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 diff -puN Documentation/exception.txt~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation Documentation/exception.txt --- devel/Documentation/exception.txt~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/Documentation/exception.txt 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 @@ -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 +function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- devel/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~remove-verify_area-remove-or-edit-references-to-verify_area-in-documentation 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-08-30 00:13:03.000000000 -0700 @@ -57,14 +57,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.co --------------------------- -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> - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 _