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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-04-04 22:08:22 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-05 00:12:47 -0400
commit2363cc0264c42636e9e7622f78dde5c2f66beb8e (patch)
tree33136de9f38ad6cfc7ce9b6d4d10f1227239a05b /block
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 '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)
62 /* temporary */ 62 /* temporary */
63 if (major == 0) { 63 if (major == 0) {
64 for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) { 64 for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) {
65 if (is_lanana_major(index))
66 continue;
67 if (major_names[index] == NULL) 65 if (major_names[index] == NULL)
68 break; 66 break;
69 } 67 }