From 2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:08:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/genhd.c | 2 -- drivers/base/core.c | 14 -------------- fs/char_dev.c | 2 -- include/linux/kdev_t.h | 2 -- 4 files changed, 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 050a1f0f3a86..441432a142f2 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name) /* temporary */ if (major == 0) { for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) { - if (is_lanana_major(index)) - continue; if (major_names[index] == NULL) break; } 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 @@ -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. */ 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; } diff --git a/include/linux/kdev_t.h b/include/linux/kdev_t.h index 4c2c3737e415..2dacab8beccb 100644 --- a/include/linux/kdev_t.h +++ b/include/linux/kdev_t.h @@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ static inline unsigned sysv_minor(u32 dev) return dev & 0x3ffff; } -bool is_lanana_major(unsigned int major); - #else /* __KERNEL__ */ /* -- 2.20.1