[PATCH] fat: kill reserved names

Since these names on old MSDOS is used as device, so, current fat driver
doesn't allow a user to create those names.  But many OSes and even Windows
can create those names actually, now.

This patch removes the reserved name check.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/vfat/namei.c b/fs/vfat/namei.c
index ef46939c0c1a..a56cec3be5f0 100644
--- a/fs/vfat/namei.c
+++ b/fs/vfat/namei.c
@@ -185,24 +185,6 @@ static int vfat_valid_longname(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
                 return -EINVAL;
         if (len >= 256)
                 return -ENAMETOOLONG;
-
-        /* MS-DOS "device special files" */
-        if (len == 3 || (len > 3 && name[3] == '.')) {  /* basename == 3 */
-                if (!strnicmp(name, "aux", 3) ||
-                    !strnicmp(name, "con", 3) ||
-                    !strnicmp(name, "nul", 3) ||
-                    !strnicmp(name, "prn", 3))
-                        return -EINVAL;
-        }
-        if (len == 4 || (len > 4 && name[4] == '.')) {  /* basename == 4 */
-                /* "com1", "com2", ... */
-                if ('1' <= name[3] && name[3] <= '9') {
-                        if (!strnicmp(name, "com", 3) ||
-                            !strnicmp(name, "lpt", 3))
-                                return -EINVAL;
-                }
-        }
-
         return 0;
 }