lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Jan]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
Subject[PATCH][0/4] let's kill verify_area

verify_area() if just a wrapper for access_ok() (or similar function or
dummy function) for all arch's. I say it's time we just get rid of it as
it no longer serves any purpose and it's easy to convert to access_ok.
Converting all users may take some time, so initially deprecate it (which
will get the janitors attention as well as maintainers and ordinary users)
and then when all users of the function are converted we can kill it and
all comments related to it.

The following patches deprecate the function for all arch's and then do a
few initial conversions just to get things moving.

Comments are welcome.


--
Jesper Juhl
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:09    [W:0.031 / U:0.100 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site