Hi James, This patch was sent to the list long back and was Acked by Hannes on Aug 11. Please consider for inclusion. Let me know if you see any issues with the patch. regards, chandra ------------------------- Create the sysfs file, dh_state even if the new SCSI device is not in the any of the device handler's internal lists. Signed-Off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.31/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31.orig/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c +++ linux-2.6.31/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c @@ -292,18 +292,15 @@ static int scsi_dh_notifier(struct notif sdev = to_scsi_device(dev); if (action == BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE) { + err = device_create_file(dev, &scsi_dh_state_attr); + /* don't care about err */ devinfo = device_handler_match(NULL, sdev); - if (!devinfo) - goto out; - - err = scsi_dh_handler_attach(sdev, devinfo); - if (!err) - err = device_create_file(dev, &scsi_dh_state_attr); + if (devinfo) + err = scsi_dh_handler_attach(sdev, devinfo); } else if (action == BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE) { device_remove_file(dev, &scsi_dh_state_attr); scsi_dh_handler_detach(sdev, NULL); } -out: return err; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html