linux-kernel - [PATCH] remove odd and misleading comments from uio.h

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 14:59:59 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] remove odd and misleading comments from uio.h

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/uio.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/uio.h	2007-01-16 03:40:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/uio.h	2007-01-16 03:41:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@
  *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
-
-/* A word of warning: Our uio structure will clash with the C library one (which is now obsolete). Remove the C
-   library one from sys/uio.h if you have a very old library set */
-
 struct iovec
 {
 	void __user *iov_base;	/* BSD uses caddr_t (1003.1g requires void *) */
@@ -38,11 +34,6 @@
  
 #define UIO_FASTIOV	8
 #define UIO_MAXIOV	1024
-#if 0
-#define UIO_MAXIOV	16	/* Maximum iovec's in one operation 
-				   16 matches BSD */
-                                /* Beg pardon: BSD has 1024 --ANK */
-#endif
 
 /*
  * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/