[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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index b46350c27837..687ab418d292 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -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;