Commit ae57a856 authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent b3969e58
......@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@ int kobject_add(struct kobject * kobj)
/* 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;
......
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