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[PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majors

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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
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drivers/base/core.c
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@@ -27,20 +27,6 @@
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.
*/