[PATCH] kobject: quiet errors in kobject_add

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 lib/kobject.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- gregkh-2.6.orig/lib/kobject.c
+++ gregkh-2.6/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;

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