From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261219AbVAGBNR (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:13:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261199AbVAGBLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:11:08 -0500 Received: from mail.dif.dk ([193.138.115.101]:53951 "EHLO mail.dif.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261226AbVAGBGs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:06:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:18:11 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Juhl To: linux-kernel Cc: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH][0/4] let's kill verify_area Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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