[SCSI] Alter the scsi_add_device() API to conform to what users expect

The original API returned either an ERR_PTR() or a refcounted sdev.
Unfortunately, if it's successful, you need to do a scsi_device_put() on
the sdev otherwise the refcounting is wrong.

Everyone seems to expect that scsi_add_device() should be callable
without doing the ref put, so alter the API so it is (we still have
__scsi_add_device with the original behaviour).

The only actual caller that needs altering is the one in firewire ...
not because it gets this right, but because it acts on the error if one
is returned.

Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
index a0975c78b96..b86f170fa8e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -1264,6 +1264,19 @@ struct scsi_device *__scsi_add_device(struct Scsi_Host *shost, uint channel,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__scsi_add_device);
 
+int scsi_add_device(struct Scsi_Host *host, uint channel,
+		    uint target, uint lun)
+{
+	struct scsi_device *sdev = 
+		__scsi_add_device(host, channel, target, lun, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(sdev))
+		return PTR_ERR(sdev);
+
+	scsi_device_put(sdev);
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_add_device);
+
 void scsi_rescan_device(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct scsi_driver *drv;