[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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index a8ac34b..d04fd33 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -28,6 +28,20 @@
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.
*/