block: update __register_blkdev() probe documentation
__register_blkdev() is used to register a probe callback, and that callback is typically used to call add_disk(). Now that we are able to capture errors for add_disk(), we need to fix those probe calls where add_disk() fails and clean up resources. We don't extend the probe call to return the error given: 1) we'd have to always special-case the case where the disk was already present, as otherwise concurrent requests to open an existing block device would fail, and this would be a userspace visible change 2) the error from ilookup() on blkdev_get_no_open() is sufficient 3) The only thing the probe call is used for is to support pre-devtmpfs, pre-udev semantics that want to create disks when their pre-created device node is accessed, and so we don't care for failures on probe there. Expand documentation for the probe callback to ensure users cleanup resources if add_disk() is used and to clarify this interface may be removed in the future. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211103230437.1639990-12-mcgrof@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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