Re: [PATCH v2 12/13] block: make __register_blkdev() return an error
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-11-03 17:00:57
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linux-block, linux-scsi, lkml
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-11-03 17:00:57
Also in:
linux-block, linux-scsi, lkml
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 09:44:53AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
Here's the thing, prober call a form of add_disk(), and so do we want to always ignore the errors on probe? If so we should document why that is sane then. I think this approach is a bit more sane though.
I suspect the right thing is to just kill of ->probe. The only thing it supports is pre-devtmpfs, pre-udev semantics that want to magically create disks when their pre-created device node is accesses. But if we don't remove it, yes I think not reporting the error is best. Just clean up whatever local resources were set up in the ->probe method and let the open fail without the need of passing on the actual error.