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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-04-04 19:08:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-04 21:12:47 -0700
commit2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e (patch)
tree33136de9f38ad6cfc7ce9b6d4d10f1227239a05b /block
parentc75fd0ee6e1750e6e527ed1d4aeee66739d9ad79 (diff)
downloadlinux-2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e.tar.gz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 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;
 		}