Commit b446b60e authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f4fa27c1
......@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
......@@ -61,13 +62,7 @@ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
/* temporary */
if (major == 0) {
for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) {
/*
* Disallow the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL
* majors
*/
if ((60 <= index && index <= 63) ||
(120 <= index && index <= 127) ||
(240 <= index && index <= 254))
if (is_lanana_major(index))
continue;
if (major_names[index] == NULL)
break;
......
......@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@
int (*platform_notify)(struct device * dev) = NULL;
int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device * dev) = NULL;
/*
* Detect the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
*/
bool is_lanana_major(unsigned int major)
{
if (major >= 60 && major <= 63)
return 1;
if (major >= 120 && major <= 127)
return 1;
if (major >= 240 && major <= 254)
return 1;
return 0;
}
/*
* sysfs bindings for devices.
*/
......
......@@ -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;
......
......@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static inline unsigned sysv_minor(u32 dev)
return dev & 0x3ffff;
}
bool is_lanana_major(unsigned int major);
#else /* __KERNEL__ */
......
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