[PATCH] kobject: quiet errors in kobject_add
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 20 May 2006 22:00:30 +0000 (15:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 21 May 2006 19:59:21 +0000 (12:59 -0700)
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>
lib/kobject.c

index b46350c278370b3ea799fdd5e220befbb7b83a83..687ab418d292b15084d8a97be48f6003b0d0e315 100644 (file)
@@ -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;