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diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535 b/trunk/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it a better device citizen.  Further thanks to Joel Katz
 Porfiri Claudio <C.Porfiri@nisms.tei.ericsson.se> for patches
 to make the driver work with the older CDU-510/515 series, and
 Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@colossus.escape.de> for pointing out that
-the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks.
+the verify_area() checks were ignoring the results of said checks
+(note: verify_area() has since been replaced by access_ok()).
 
 (Acknowledgments from Ron Jeppesen in the 0.3 release:)
 Thanks to Corey Minyard who wrote the original CDU-31A driver on which

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/exception.txt b/trunk/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+function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).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 

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -66,14 +66,6 @@ Who:	Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
 
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-What:	remove verify_area()
-When:	July 2006
-Files:	Various uaccess.h headers.
-Why:	Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead.
-Who:	Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
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 What:	IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,
 	Connection Management Procedures driver
 When:	November 2005