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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-05 06:08:22 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-05 08:12:47 +0400 |
| commit | 2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e (patch) | |
| tree | 33136de9f38ad6cfc7ce9b6d4d10f1227239a05b /drivers/base | |
| parent | c75fd0ee6e1750e6e527ed1d4aeee66739d9ad79 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e.tar.xz | |
[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 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index ad0f4a2f25c4..d7fcf823a42a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -28,20 +28,6 @@ int (*platform_notify)(struct device * dev) = NULL; int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device * dev) = NULL; /* - * Detect the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors - */ -bool is_lanana_major(unsigned int major) -{ - if (major >= 60 && major <= 63) - return 1; - if (major >= 120 && major <= 127) - return 1; - if (major >= 240 && major <= 254) - return 1; - return 0; -} - -/* * sysfs bindings for devices. */ |