On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:17:47AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > I hope I did a descent job and that you didn't waste too much time > duplicating effort...
Didn't look too hard at it since my patch of something like 2,500 lines should be a superset of yours. > > The last instance of verify_area() in the MIPS code is now the definition > > itself. > > > The plan is to wait for a few months (or a few kernel releases - whichever > comes first) and then I'll send Andrew patches to remove it completely. > There are still a few related nits left, like the FPU_verify_area function > arch/i386/math-emu/reg_ld_str.c and the rw_verify_area function in > fs/read_write.c that I want to get out of the way first (think I'll > probably end up attempting to rename those s/verify_area/access_ok/ and > see if people scream). Access_ok was introduced in 2.1.4. Easy for people to write code that's portable and so verify_area should die a peaceful death. Ralf - 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/
