[S390] dasd: tolerate devices that have no feature codes
authorStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:58:52 +0000 (22:58 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:58:46 +0000 (22:58 +0200)
The DASD device driver reads the feature codes of a device during
device initialization. These codes are later used to determine the
availability of advanced features like PAV or High Performance FICON.
Some very old devices do not support the command to read feature
codes and the initialization routine fails.
As the feature codes are not necessary for basic DASD operations, we
can support such devices by just ignoring missing feature codes.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c

index a1ce573..614813f 100644 (file)
@@ -935,6 +935,7 @@ static int dasd_eckd_read_features(struct dasd_device *device)
        struct dasd_eckd_private *private;
 
        private = (struct dasd_eckd_private *) device->private;
+       memset(&private->features, 0, sizeof(struct dasd_rssd_features));
        cqr = dasd_smalloc_request(DASD_ECKD_MAGIC, 1 /* PSF */ + 1 /* RSSD */,
                                   (sizeof(struct dasd_psf_prssd_data) +
                                    sizeof(struct dasd_rssd_features)),
@@ -982,7 +983,9 @@ static int dasd_eckd_read_features(struct dasd_device *device)
                features = (struct dasd_rssd_features *) (prssdp + 1);
                memcpy(&private->features, features,
                       sizeof(struct dasd_rssd_features));
-       }
+       } else
+               dev_warn(&device->cdev->dev, "Reading device feature codes"
+                        " failed with rc=%d\n", rc);
        dasd_sfree_request(cqr, cqr->memdev);
        return rc;
 }
@@ -1144,9 +1147,7 @@ dasd_eckd_check_characteristics(struct dasd_device *device)
        }
 
        /* Read Feature Codes */
-       rc = dasd_eckd_read_features(device);
-       if (rc)
-               goto out_err3;
+       dasd_eckd_read_features(device);
 
        /* Read Device Characteristics */
        rc = dasd_generic_read_dev_chars(device, DASD_ECKD_MAGIC,
@@ -3241,9 +3242,7 @@ int dasd_eckd_restore_device(struct dasd_device *device)
        }
 
        /* Read Feature Codes */
-       rc = dasd_eckd_read_features(device);
-       if (rc)
-               goto out_err;
+       dasd_eckd_read_features(device);
 
        /* Read Device Characteristics */
        memset(&private->rdc_data, 0, sizeof(private->rdc_data));