[PATCH] rework reserved major handling

Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling
due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental
majors.

Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug.

The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into
behaving.

Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index e6194e2b9bb9..78ced721554d 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 
@@ -108,12 +109,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
         /* temporary */
         if (major == 0) {
                 for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs)-1; i > 0; i--) {
-                        /*
-                         * Disallow the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL
-                         * majors
-                         */
-                        if ((60 <= i && i <= 63) || (120 <= i && i <= 127) ||
-                                        (240 <= i && i <= 254))
+                        if (is_lanana_major(i))
                                 continue;
                         if (chrdevs[i] == NULL)
                                 break;