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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: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Jesper Juhl and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535
··· 68 68 Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches 69 69 to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and 70 70 Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that 71 - the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks. 71 + the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks 72 + (note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()). 72 73 73 74 (Acknowledgments from Ron Jeppesen in the 0.3 release:) 74 75 Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which
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Documentation/exception.txt
··· 7 7 8 8 In older versions of Linux this was done with the 9 9 int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) 10 - function. 10 + function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()). 11 11 12 12 This function verified that the memory area starting at address 13 13 addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
··· 66 66 67 67 --------------------------- 68 68 69 - What: remove verify_area() 70 - When: July 2006 71 - Files: Various uaccess.h headers. 72 - Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. 73 - Who: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> 74 - 75 - --------------------------- 76 - 77 69 What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, 78 70 Connection Management Procedures driver 79 71 When: November 2005