[PATCH] UBI: block: Continue creating ubiblocks after an initialization error

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On 12/17/2014 08:16 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> If one ubi volume is corrupted but another is not, it should be
> possible to initialize that ubiblock from a kernel commandline which
> includes both of them. This patch changes the error handling behavior
> in initializing ubiblock to ensure that all parameters are attempted
> even if one fails. If there is a failure, it returns one of the
> error status codes. It also makes error messages more descriptive
> by including the name of the UBI volume that failed.
> 
> Tested: Formatted ubi volume /dev/ubi5_0 in a corrupt way and
> dev/ubi3_0 properly and included "ubi.block=5,0 ubi.block=3,0" on
> the kernel command line. At boot, I see the following in the console:
> [   21.082420] UBI error: ubiblock_create_from_param: block: can't
> open volume on ubi5_0, err=-19
> [   21.084268] UBI: ubiblock3_0 created from ubi3:0(rootfs)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg at chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c
> index 8876c7d..32eeeee 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c
> @@ -596,10 +596,11 @@ static int __init ubiblock_create_from_param(void)
>

Do you think we can add a comment here to explain how errors are treated?

>                 desc = open_volume_desc(p->name, p->ubi_num, p->vol_id);
>                 if (IS_ERR(desc)) {
> -                       ubi_err("block: can't open volume, err=%ld\n",
> -                               PTR_ERR(desc));
> +                       ubi_err(
> +                               "block: can't open volume on ubi%d_%d, err=%ld",
> +                               p->ubi_num, p->vol_id, PTR_ERR(desc));

Is it me, or this line break is unneeded here?

Also, it seems something is wrong with the patch format. Patchwork shows
some oddities:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/422408/

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Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar