[PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majors
Revert all this. It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar, apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups. Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important enough to justify the churn. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
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/* temporary */
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if (major == 0) {
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for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs)-1; i > 0; i--) {
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if (is_lanana_major(i))
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continue;
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if (chrdevs[i] == NULL)
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break;
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}
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