Re: plain 2.6.21-rc5 (1) vs amanda (0)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx>
> 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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