tree d0da44b5e8fc9836dc4e3e5745234fa01f6a87d8
parent 6ab8eb1cffcc5640ca5b07c2a0ddfaa8fbbcc754
author Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> 1171270303 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1171302507 -0800

[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>