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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
