[PATCH] kobject: quiet errors in kobject_add
People don't like released kernels yelling at them, no matter how real the
error might be. So only report it if CONFIG_KOBJECT_DEBUG is enabled.
Sent on request of Andrew Morton.
(akpm: should bring this back post-2.6.17)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index b46350c..687ab41 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@
/* be noisy on error issues */
if (error == -EEXIST)
- printk("kobject_add failed for %s with -EEXIST, "
+ pr_debug("kobject_add failed for %s with -EEXIST, "
"don't try to register things with the "
"same name in the same directory.\n",
kobject_name(kobj));
else
- printk("kobject_add failed for %s (%d)\n",
+ pr_debug("kobject_add failed for %s (%d)\n",
kobject_name(kobj), error);
- dump_stack();
+ /* dump_stack(); */
}
return error;