[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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Apr 5, 2007 · 2363cc0 · 2363cc0
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diff --git 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
@@ -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
@@ -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
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ static inline unsigned sysv_minor(u32 dev)
 	return dev & 0x3ffff;
 }
 
-bool is_lanana_major(unsigned int major);
-
 #else /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 /*