On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 23:53, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > preferably also change above to "to and from userspace." so that they are in the > same respective order. How about this: diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl index 68ae82d..a709a25 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &ipaddress); <sect1 id="routines-copy"> <title> - <function>copy_{to,from}_user()</function> + <function>copy_{from,to}_user()</function> / <function>get_user()</function> / @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &ipaddress); </para> <para> - <function>put_user()</function> and <function>get_user()</function> + <function>get_user()</function> and <function>put_user()</function> are used to get and put a single value (such as an int, char, or long) from and to userspace. A pointer into userspace should never be simply dereferenced: data should be copied using these -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html