The patch titled
cciss: fix regression that no device nodes are created if no logical drives are configured.
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
cciss-fix-regression-that-no-device-nodes-are-created-if-no-logical-drives-are-configured.patch
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Subject: cciss: fix regression that no device nodes are created if no logical drives are configured.
From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fix regression in cciss driver that if no logical drives are configured,
no device nodes at all get created.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/cciss.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-regression-that-no-device-nodes-are-created-if-no-logical-drives-are-configured drivers/block/cciss.c
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-regression-that-no-device-nodes-are-created-if-no-logical-drives-are-configured
+++ a/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -3546,6 +3546,10 @@ static int __devinit cciss_init_one(stru
for (j = 0; j <= hba[i]->highest_lun; j++)
add_disk(hba[i]->gendisk[j]);
+ /* we must register the controller even if no disks exist */
+ if (hba[i]->highest_lun == -1)
+ add_disk(hba[i]->gendisk[0]);
+
return 1;
clean4:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
cciss-fix-regression-that-no-device-nodes-are-created-if-no-logical-drives-are-configured.patch
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