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1/23sunrpc: use simple_read_from_buffernet/sunrpc/cache.c+3 -122 replies
2/23binfmt_misc: use simple_read_from_bufferfs/binfmt_misc.c+3 -170 replies
3/23ocfs2: use simple_read_from_bufferfs/ocfs2/stack_user.c+5 -141 reply
4/23ipc: use simple_read_from_bufferipc/mqueue.c+7 -180 replies
5/23isdn: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_procconf.c+7 -200 replies
6/23s390/vmcp: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/s390/char/vmcp.c+6 -142 replies
7/23s390: use simple_read_from_bufferarch/s390/hypfs/inode.c+10 -190 replies
8/23nwflash: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/char/nwflash.c+8 -230 replies
9/23usbmon: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c+2 -120 replies
10/23ttusb: use simple_read_from_buffer()drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-budget/dvb-ttusb-budget.c+3 -150 replies
11/23airo: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/net/wireless/airo.c+3 -120 replies
12/23cris: use simple_read_from_bufferarch/cris/kernel/profile.c+7 -100 replies
13/23introduce memory_read_from_bufferfs/libfs.c include/linux/fs.h+22 -10 replies
14/23dcdbas: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/firmware/dcdbas.c+3 -110 replies
15/23dell_rbu: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c+4 -250 replies
16/23firmware: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/base/firmware_class.c+4 -90 replies
17/23acpi: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/acpi/system.c+2 -130 replies
18/23aty: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c+2 -90 replies
19/23zorro: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c+2 -81 reply
20/23s390/cio: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/s390/cio/chp.c+3 -90 replies
21/23s390: use memory_read_from_bufferarch/s390/kernel/ipl.c+4 -140 replies
22/23ipr: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/scsi/ipr.c+5 -110 replies
23/23qla2xxx: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c+10 -350 replies

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Cover letter [patch -v2 00/23] use simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer

(Apologies for resending the patches due to broken email header in previous posting)

This series of patches is almost trivial replacement except for introducing memory_read_from_buffer().

The only difference between memory_read_from_buffer() and simple_read_from_buffer() is which address space the function copies to.

simple_read_from_buffer() copies to user space memory. memory_read_from_buffer() copies to normal memory.