[dm-devel] [PATCH]: create sysfs file, dh_state for SCSI devices even if they are not in the inteernal lists
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Mon Jun 29 07:40:32 UTC 2009
Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> 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 at us.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c | 11 ++++-------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.31-rc1.orig/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
> +++ linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
> @@ -304,18 +304,15 @@ 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;
> }
>
>
>
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NACK.
This will create sysfs attributes even if the attach()
failed for other reason like a generic error. So we'll end
up with device handler attributes and no device handler attached.
Not a good idea.
Cheers,
Hannes
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