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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-04 19:08:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-04 21:12:47 -0700 |
| commit | 2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e (patch) | |
| tree | 33136de9f38ad6cfc7ce9b6d4d10f1227239a05b /fs | |
| parent | c75fd0ee6e1750e6e527ed1d4aeee66739d9ad79 (diff) | |
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/char_dev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index 78ced721554d..164a45cdaf5f 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -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; } |