device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
cause us to disable the device entirely.
So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index 5d64c3f..81d05ec 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1090,11 +1090,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev)
        }
 
        error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
-       if (error) {
+       if (error)
+               /*
+                * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored
+                */
                sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
                                "failed to add device handler: %d\n", error);
-               return error;
-       }
 
        device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
        error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);
-- 
1.8.5.6

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