* Dave Dillow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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?
Ingo
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