misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net

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commit 79907d89c3 upstream.

10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in
Ubuntu and Debian distributions.  vhost_net seem to have borrowed it
without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other
distributions.

vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead.  Also update the
file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org>
[ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Alan Cox 2010-06-09 09:39:49 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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drivers/vhost/net.c

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