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use simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer

Akinobu Mita linux-acpi linux-fbdev linux-s390 linux-scsi linux-wireless lkml netdev ocfs2-devel 1 version In review

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  1. v1 Latest22 patches 4 repliesIn review

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/22binfmt_misc: use simple_read_from_bufferfs/binfmt_misc.c+3 -170 replies
2/22ocfs2: use simple_read_from_bufferfs/ocfs2/stack_user.c+5 -141 reply
3/22ipc: use simple_read_from_bufferipc/mqueue.c+7 -180 replies
4/22isdn: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_procconf.c+7 -200 replies
5/22s390/vmcp: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/s390/char/vmcp.c+8 -140 replies
6/22s390: use simple_read_from_bufferarch/s390/hypfs/inode.c+10 -190 replies
7/22nwflash: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/char/nwflash.c+8 -230 replies
8/22usbmon: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c+2 -120 replies
9/22ttusb: use simple_read_from_buffer()drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-budget/dvb-ttusb-budget.c+3 -150 replies
10/22airo: use simple_read_from_bufferdrivers/net/wireless/airo.c+3 -120 replies
11/22cris: use simple_read_from_bufferarch/cris/kernel/profile.c+7 -100 replies
12/22introduce memory_read_from_bufferfs/libfs.c include/linux/fs.h+22 -10 replies
13/22dcdbas: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/firmware/dcdbas.c+3 -110 replies
14/22dell_rbu: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c+4 -250 replies
15/22firmware: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/base/firmware_class.c+4 -90 replies
16/22acpi: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/acpi/system.c+2 -132 replies
17/22aty: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c+2 -90 replies
18/22zorro: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c+2 -80 replies
19/22s390/cio: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/s390/cio/chp.c+3 -90 replies
20/22s390: use memory_read_from_bufferarch/s390/kernel/ipl.c+4 -140 replies
21/22ipr: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/scsi/ipr.c+5 -110 replies
22/22qla2xxx: use memory_read_from_bufferdrivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c+10 -351 reply

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3 of 22 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchKarsten KeilGeert UytterhoevenJoel Becker
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Cover letter [patch -v3 00/22] use simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer

Changes since -v2:
- drop sunrpc patch because of a preference for seq_printf() conversion
- fix available buffer size in vmcp patch
- add Acked-by: from maintainers

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.