[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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Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 19:08:22 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c75fd0ee6e
commit 2363cc0264
4 changed files with 0 additions and 20 deletions

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@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
/* temporary */
if (major == 0) {
for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs)-1; i > 0; i--) {
if (is_lanana_major(i))
continue;
if (chrdevs[i] == NULL)
break;
}