Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] null_blk: do not fail the module load with zero devices

[Chaitanya Kulkarni]

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx>

On 09/13/2019 03:04 PM, André Almeida wrote:
> The module load should fail only if there is something wrong with the
> configuration or if an error prevents it to work properly. The module
> should be able to be loaded with (nr_device == 0), since it will not
> trigger errors or be in malfunction state. Preventing loading with zero
> devices also breaks applications that configures this module using
> configfs API. Remove the nr_device check to fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: f7c4ce890dd2 ("null_blk: validate the number of devices")
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - None
> ---
>   drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 4 ----
>   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
> index ab4b87677139..be32cb5ed339 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c
> @@ -1758,10 +1758,6 @@ static int __init null_init(void)
>   		pr_err("null_blk: legacy IO path no longer available\n");
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
> -	if (!nr_devices) {
> -		pr_err("null_blk: invalid number of devices\n");
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -	}
>   	if (g_queue_mode == NULL_Q_MQ && g_use_per_node_hctx) {
>   		if (g_submit_queues != nr_online_nodes) {
>   			pr_warn("null_blk: submit_queues param is set to %u.\n",
>