From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: turn Oops into WARNING if bdi_register_dev fails.
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:04:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150427130436.GB31842@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150427151931.7a43ecc6@notabene.brown>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:19:31PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> add_disk() does not return an error status, but it can
> still fail if there are problems elsewhere.
>
> In particular a recent problem caused bdi_register_dev()
> to sometimes fail because the name was already in use.
I guess that's the best workaround for now, but we'll really need to tackle
the problem that add_disk can return errors proper eventually.
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2015-04-27 5:19 NeilBrown
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