From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992750AbXDDIpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:45:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992752AbXDDIpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:45:53 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:51843 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992750AbXDDIpv (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:45:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:45:30 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dave Dillow , Andrew Morton Cc: Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, amanda-hackers@amanda.org, amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: plain 2.6.21-rc5 (1) vs amanda (0) Message-ID: <20070404084530.GB1556@elte.hu> References: <200704010100.19016.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <2c0942db0704010033r61f967c3y7d05e3ec0a9f6931@mail.gmail.com> <200704011141.53105.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200704020021.02393.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <1175488272.3161.28.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1175661256.31439.23.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1175661256.31439.23.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Dave Dillow 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 > 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