Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Talk_to_backend on xenbus_probe only if drv->probe was sucessful

[Murillo Bernardes <mfb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:38, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:35:45PM -0200, Murillo Bernardes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch makes xenbus_probe only call talk_to_backend if drv->probe()
> > was sucessful.
> >
> > There is no sense in add a watch before drv->probe, because if it fails
> > the otherend_changed callback will be called and receive a struct with
> > invalid pointers and we get a segfault (ooops).
>
> Applied, thanks Murillo.
>
> Ewan.
I just found a problem on that. It breaks block devices! I don't know why yet.

Do you know why block devices rely on that watch before probe?

Thanks


-- 
Murillo Fernandes Bernardes
IBM Linux Technology Center

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