[PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majors
commit2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 02:08:22 +0000 (4 19:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 04:12:47 +0000 (4 21:12 -0700)
tree33136de9f38ad6cfc7ce9b6d4d10f1227239a05b
parentc75fd0ee6e1750e6e527ed1d4aeee66739d9ad79
[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>
block/genhd.c
drivers/base/core.c
fs/char_dev.c
include/linux/kdev_t.h