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    [PATCH] remove devfs_only() · c8eddecf
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    Rationale:  devfs_only does nothing but disabling {un,}register_blkdev
    and {un,}register_chrdev.  {un,}register_blkdev already do nothing but
    adding it's name argument to a lookup table for the __bdevname and
    /proc/device output so this use is already bogus.  The disabling of
    the character device per-major arrays can work in practice but is
    useless as any driver relying on it can't be used on non-devfs systems.
    c8eddecf
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