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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:45:30 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ray-gmail@...rabbit.org,
amanda-hackers@...nda.org, amanda-users@...nda.org
Subject: Re: plain 2.6.21-rc5 (1) vs amanda (0)
* Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org> wrote:
> > Then it is a matter of figuring out why the device number changed --
> > I'm thinking it is device-mapper, but will look closer tomorrow.
>
> This commit is the one that changed it:
>
> commit fdf892be32d84a1745fa0aee5fc60517421b8038
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> Date: Mon Feb 12 00:51:44 2007 -0800
>
> [PATCH] register_blkdev(): don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
>
> As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922,
> dynamic blockdev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA
> has defined as being for local/experimental use.
i dont think we should break backwards compatibility with a system that
has not changed any hardware. Andrew, should we revert this?
Ingo
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