[PATCH v3 1/2] nvme-pci: Print error message on failure in nvme_probe

Gerd Bayer gbayer at linux.ibm.com
Fri Oct 24 04:05:31 PDT 2025


Add a new error message that makes failures to probe visible in the
kernel log, like:
nvme 0008:00:00.0: error -ENODEV: probe failed

This highlights issues with a particular device right away instead of
leaving users to search for missing drives.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index c916176bd9f058b49e6e6768675711df52b15765..8c624960c9f67e0cc8409023de5e532d6ed9b3ac 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -3522,6 +3522,7 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 	nvme_uninit_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
 out_put_ctrl:
 	nvme_put_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
+	dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, result, "probe failed\n");
 	return result;
 }
 

-- 
2.48.1




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