Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:04:36 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: turn Oops into WARNING if bdi_register_dev fails. |
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:19:31PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > add_disk() does not return an error status, but it can > still fail if there are problems elsewhere. > > In particular a recent problem caused bdi_register_dev() > to sometimes fail because the name was already in use.
I guess that's the best workaround for now, but we'll really need to tackle the problem that add_disk can return errors proper eventually.
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