On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:07AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Now that 2.6.11 is out the door it's time to try and submit this again. > The following patches convert all users of verify_area to access_ok and > the final patch then deprecates verify_area acros all archs with the > intention of removing it completely later. These patches get rid of 99+% > of all users, there's still one or two macros left using it and there are > still a few comments left refering to it that could be cleaned up - I'll > get to those, but what remains after these patches is extremely little. > The reason for doing this is that verify_area is just a wrapper for > access_ok anyway, so there's no good reason to keep it around - access_ok > also seems more readable anyway with saner return values. > Since these patches touch things all over the tree the CC list would be > enormous if I CC'd everyone involved on all patches, so I'll just CC this > initial mail to a few key people I think are relevant (I hope I got that > list right), and the actual patches I'll just send to linux-kernel and > Andrew (or directly to people who ask for that).
The execution at first glance appears good. Out of curiosity, does this serve a larger purpose than eliminating a redundant API? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
