Re: [PATCH 6/9] firewire: fw-sbp2: don't add scsi_device twice

[Stefan Richter]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Was the spurious __scsi_add_device simply failing, or was it causing
>> other problems as well?

> SCSI core looks up whether the scsi_target and the scsi_device already
> exist.  If so, __scsi_add_device succeeds (there should also be a log
> message "scsi scan: device exists on %s\n") and returns the pointer to
> the existing scsi_device.

PS:  This behavior is undocumented and we shouldn't rely on it.
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