[PATCH] revert fs/char_dev.c CONFIG_BASE_FULL change
This reverts a fs/char_dev.c patch that was merged into BK on March 3.
The problem is that it breaks things ... __register_chrdev_region() has
a block of code, commented "temporary" for over two years now, which
fails rudely during PCMCIA initialization or other register_chrdev()
calls, because it doesn't "degrade to linked list". This keeps whole
subsystems from working.
A real fix to that "temporary" code should be possible, using some better
scheme to allocate major numbers, but it's not something I want to spend
time on just now.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 7357a91..a745b1d 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;
-/* degrade to linked list for small systems */
-#define MAX_PROBE_HASH (CONFIG_BASE_SMALL ? 1 : 255)
+#define MAX_PROBE_HASH 255 /* random */
static DECLARE_MUTEX(chrdevs_lock);