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[02/18] scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()

Message ID 1447081703-110552-3-git-send-email-hare@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Hannes Reinecke Nov. 9, 2015, 3:08 p.m. UTC
device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
cause us to disable the device entirely.
So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Johannes Thumshirn Nov. 24, 2015, 12:14 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 16:08 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
> reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
> cause us to disable the device entirely.
> So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> index 13a5ede..7b41b2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> @@ -1118,11 +1118,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device
> *sdev)
>  	}
>  
>  	error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
> -	if (error) {
> +	if (error)
> +		/*
> +		 * device_handler is optional, so any error can be
> ignored
> +		 */
>  		sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
>  				"failed to add device handler:
> %d\n", error);
> -		return error;
> -	}
>  
>  	device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
>  	error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index 13a5ede..7b41b2c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1118,11 +1118,12 @@  int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 	}
 
 	error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
-	if (error) {
+	if (error)
+		/*
+		 * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored
+		 */
 		sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
 				"failed to add device handler: %d\n", error);
-		return error;
-	}
 
 	device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
 	error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);