From 720a845911097cea1394fe7abb2c9efa76e32715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Juhl Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:17:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/ Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/exception.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/exception.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt index f1d436993eb1..3cb39ade290e 100644 --- a/Documentation/exception.txt +++ b/Documentation/exception.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ To protect itself the kernel has to verify this address. In older versions of Linux this was done with the int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) -function. +function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()). This function verified that the memory area starting at address addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified -- cgit v1.2.3