tree 1fcff840a5cfb61399b9eac843d5b74e9e6b45e0
parent f4fa27c16ba9b6910c5b815e5c13a7e8249277f0
author Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 1172008668 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1172020213 -0800

[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>