e could not allocate the initiator name or some other id like the hwaddress or netdev, then userspace could deal with the failure by just running in a dregraded mode. Now we want to be able to switch values for the params and we want some feedback, so this patch will check if a string like the initiatorname could not be allocated and return an error. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: James Bottomley D [™(x