Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2] revert fs/char_dev.c CONFIG_BASE_FULL change

2005-04-17 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:06:53AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > I tracked down a regression in PCMCIA (and other software) to a > new bogus register_chrdev() behavior that got merged last month; > a patch from Matt Mackall that misbehaves. Thanks and sorry about that. I actually asked Linus to r

[patch 2.6.12-rc2] revert fs/char_dev.c CONFIG_BASE_FULL change

2005-04-17 Thread David Brownell
I tracked down a regression in PCMCIA (and other software) to a new bogus register_chrdev() behavior that got merged last month; a patch from Matt Mackall that misbehaves. This patch just reverts Matt's, restoring the previous behavior but at the cost of about a Kbyte of static memory on 32bit CPU