device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't cause us to disable the device entirely. So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device(). Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c index 5d64c3f..81d05ec 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -1090,11 +1090,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev) } error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev); - if (error) { + if (error) + /* + * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored + */ sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev, "failed to add device handler: %d\n", error); - return error; - } device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev); error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev); -- 1.8.5.6 -- 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