The patch titled block: handle subsystem_register() init errors has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is block-handle-subsystem_register-init-errors.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: block: handle subsystem_register() init errors From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Check and handle init errors. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN block/genhd.c~block-handle-subsystem_register-init-errors block/genhd.c --- a/block/genhd.c~block-handle-subsystem_register-init-errors +++ a/block/genhd.c @@ -295,10 +295,15 @@ static struct kobject *base_probe(dev_t static int __init genhd_device_init(void) { + int err; + bdev_map = kobj_map_init(base_probe, &block_subsys_lock); blk_dev_init(); - subsystem_register(&block_subsys); - return 0; + err = subsystem_register(&block_subsys); + if (err < 0) + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: subsystem_register error: %d\n", + __FUNCTION__, err); + return err; } subsys_initcall(genhd_device_init); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx are acpi-bus-add-missing-newline.patch fix-undefined-missing-references-in-isa-miro-sound-driver.patch sysfs_remove_bin_file-no-return-value-dump_stack-on.patch kobject-must_check-fixes.patch drivers-base-check-errors.patch bttv-must_check-fixes.patch input-must_check-fixes.patch pcmcia-ds-must_check-fixes.patch pcie-check-and-return-bus_register-errors.patch pcie-check-and-return-bus_register-errors-fix.patch pcie-cleanup-on-probe-error.patch aic7-cleanup-module_parm_desc-strings.patch dc395x-fix-printk-format-warning.patch scsi_debug-must_check-fixes.patch areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch consistently-use-max_errno-in-__syscall_return.patch consistently-use-max_errno-in-__syscall_return-fix.patch eisa-bus-modalias-attributes-support-1.patch kernel-params-must_check-fixes.patch blockdevc-check-errors.patch block-handle-subsystem_register-init-errors.patch ide-core-must_check-fixes.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html