linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] block: introduce device_add

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:27:23 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] block: introduce device_add_disk()

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:15:19AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> > How are the callers expected to unwind after already having added the
>> > disk?
>>
>> True, I overlooked making add_disk() unwind-able, will re-spin...
>
> I think this will take more work than we can finish in the next
> days.  It would be good to simply respin it without adding the error
> propagation.

Sounds good.