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[PATCH] register_chrdev_region() don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:51:43 +0000 (00:51 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:27 +0000 (09:48 -0800)
commit6ffbb52a4d09b45ff38b2dc3b0d2e52b97e6e0a8
treed0da44b5e8fc9836dc4e3e5745234fa01f6a87d8
parentc6ebf6fbbc43abeb6af3e9771b7db66dc91a7a9c
[PATCH] register_chrdev_region() don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors

As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic
chardev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as being
for local/experimental use.

Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tomas Klas <tomas.klas@mepatek.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/char_dev.c