James, one of our customers complains that in some cases, when using multipath, the enclosure driver fails to create the symlinks in sysfs. This is an example of what happens: [ 19.251902] scsi 0:0:27:0: Direct-Access SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 E002 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 19.261874] scsi 0:0:27:0: SSP: handle(0x0027), sas_addr(0x5000c50085826dd6), phy(34), device_name(0x5000c50085826dd4) [ 19.274656] scsi 0:0:27:0: SSP: enclosure_logical_id(0x500093d001be4000), slot(57) [ 19.283944] scsi 0:0:27:0: SSP: enclosure level(0x0000), connector name( ) [ 19.292933] scsi 0:0:27:0: qdepth(254), tagged(1), simple(0), ordered(0), scsi_l [...] [ 60.066524] enclosure_add_device(0:0:27:0) called, enclosure_add_links() failed with error -2 [...] [ 75.119146] sd 0:0:27:0: Attached scsi generic sg27 type 0 [ 75.126722] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] 15628053168 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.27 TiB) [ 75.126723] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] 4096-byte physical blocks [ 75.129059] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] Write Protect is off [ 75.129061] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] Mode Sense: db 00 10 08 [ 75.130417] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 75.158088] sd 0:0:27:0: [sdaa] Attached SCSI disk [...] [ 75.192722] enclosure_add_device(0:0:27:0) called, device already exists The first time enclosure_add_device() is called, the symlinks creation failed. The second time it would have succeeded, but the enclosure_add_device() function returned immediately without retrying to create the symlinks. Maurizio Lombardi (1): enclosure: fix sysfs symlinks creation when using multipath drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- include/linux/enclosure.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- Maurizio Lombardi