From: 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. (akpm: should bring this back post-2.6.17) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- lib/kobject.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/kobject.c~kobject-quiet-errors-in-kobject_add lib/kobject.c --- devel/lib/kobject.c~kobject-quiet-errors-in-kobject_add 2006-05-19 15:44:41.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/lib/kobject.c 2006-05-19 15:44:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -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; _