From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
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)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:42:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404104219.40e25b6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404084530.GB1556@elte.hu>
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:45:30 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.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@osdl.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?
Well that's an odd thing for a backup program to be doing - there are any
number of things which could cause a dynamically-allocated major to change.
ho hum, yes, I guess it needs to go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-01 5:00 plain 2.6.21-rc5 (1) vs amanda (0) Gene Heskett
2007-04-01 6:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-01 14:44 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-01 7:33 ` Ray Lee
2007-04-01 15:41 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-02 4:20 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-02 4:31 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-04 4:34 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-04 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-04 17:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-04 18:17 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-04 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 21:55 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-05 0:49 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 15:33 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 15:59 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-09 16:12 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 16:30 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-09 17:05 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 17:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-09 19:58 ` Gene Heskett
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