Oops, Missed declaring the variable "retval". This one works for sure. Please apply this patch and drop the previous one. Sorry about that. -Ashutosh Add scsi_add_host() failure handling for the ecoscsi driver. Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@xxxxxxxxx>
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.15-git5-vanilla/drivers/scsi/arm/ecoscsi.c linux-2.6.15-git5/drivers/scsi/arm/ecoscsi.c --- linux-2.6.15-git5-vanilla/drivers/scsi/arm/ecoscsi.c 2006-01-03 08:51:10.000000000 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.15-git5/drivers/scsi/arm/ecoscsi.c 2006-01-10 18:23:12.000000000 +0530 @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static struct Scsi_Host *host; static int __init ecoscsi_init(void) { - + int retval; host = scsi_host_alloc(tpnt, sizeof(struct NCR5380_hostdata)); if (!host) return 0; @@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ static int __init ecoscsi_init(void) NCR5380_print_options(host); printk("\n"); - scsi_add_host(host, NULL); /* XXX handle failure */ + retval = scsi_add_host(host, NULL); + if (retval) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "ecoscsi: scsi_add_host failed\n"); + scsi_host_put(host); + return retval; + } + scsi_scan_host(host); return 0;