Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:49:46 +0100 (CET) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][0/4] let's kill verify_area |
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote: > > > > verify_area() if just a wrapper for access_ok() (or similar function or > > dummy function) for all arch's. > > This sounds more like "let's kill Andrew". I count 489 instances in the > tree. Please don't expect this activity to take top priority ;) > Heh, right, there's an aspect I hadn't really considered. I'm not expecting top priority, not at all. This is nowhere near being anything important, just something that should happen eventually - so I thought, why not just deprecate it now and let it be cleaned up over time (and I'll do my share, don't worry :)
Accept the patch if you think it makes sense, drop it if you think it does not (or should wait).
-- Jesper Juhl
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