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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: scsi_add_device() broken? (was Re: SBP2 hotplug doesn't update /proc/partitions)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:19:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613101943.A22559@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030613160812.GA520@hopper.phunnypharm.org>; from bcollins@debian.org on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:08:12PM -0400

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:08:12PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> Here's the scenario. scsi_add_lun doesn't set sdp->devfs_name before
> calling scsi_register_device(). Since scsi_register_device calls down to
> things like sd_probe, which do try to use sdp->devfs_name, things fail.
> 
> Just an easy change, moving the sdp->devfs_name creation before calling
> scsi_register_device(). Patch fixes this.

It really needs to move into the caller of scsi_add_lun, so we setup all
the other fields, and possibly call scsi_unlock_floptical before
registering.

And the return value should be checked - then on failure just set res (in
scsi_probe_and_add_lun) so it is cleaned up.

-- Patrick Mansfield

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-13 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04 23:48 Another must-fix: sbp2 and firewire hard disk crashes hard Torrey Hoffman
2003-06-04 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <1054838369.1737.11.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com>
     [not found]     ` <20030605175412.GF625@phunnypharm.org>
     [not found]       ` <1054858724.3519.19.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com>
     [not found]         ` <20030606025721.GJ625@phunnypharm.org>
2003-06-12 19:28           ` SBP2 hotplug doesn't update /proc/partitions Torrey Hoffman
2003-06-12 19:52             ` Erik Andersen
2003-06-12 20:07               ` Torrey Hoffman
2003-06-12 19:52             ` Ben Collins
2003-06-13  2:40               ` scsi_add_device() broken? (was Re: SBP2 hotplug doesn't update /proc/partitions) Ben Collins
2003-06-13 16:08                 ` [PATCH] " Ben Collins
2003-06-13 17:19                   ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2003-06-12 20:21             ` SBP2 hotplug doesn't update /proc/partitions Torrey Hoffman
2003-06-05  8:03 ` Another must-fix: sbp2 and firewire hard disk crashes hard Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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