Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] lightnvm: return error if manager not found

["Matias Bjørling" <mb@lightnvm.io>]

On 11/24/2015 11:35 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> We were returning a success value even if a manager was not found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
>
> Not sure if it was intentionally done like that way. This patch is
> placed at the end so it will be easy to drop if i am wrong.
> Did this change seeing similar code in nvm_create_target().
>
>   drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> index 9dd1623..c34d0cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> @@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ static int nvm_init(struct nvm_dev *dev)
>
>   	if (!ret) {
>   		pr_info("nvm: no compatible manager found.\n");
> -		return 0;
> +		ret = -ENODEV;
> +		goto err;
>   	}
>
>   	pr_info("nvm: registered %s [%u/%u/%u/%u/%u/%u]\n",
>

It actually was. Negative values means error, zero means 
continue/ignore, and positive value means the manage was registered to it.

We want to stay initialized, even without a media manager. In the case a 
media manager module is loaded, any devices, without media manager 
attached, should be re-identified and properly instantiate with the 
newly loaded module. This logic is still missing though. Feel free to 
jump in and implement it.

Thanks for taking the time to look through the source.