From 2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:08:22 -0700 Subject: [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 --- fs/char_dev.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b