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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 /drivers
parentc75fd0ee6e1750e6e527ed1d4aeee66739d9ad79 (diff)
[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 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
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
@@ -28,20 +28,6 @@ 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.
*/