Re: [broken-out-2007-07-20-00-22] kernel bug at kernel/params:570

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:02:57 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> --- a/kernel/params.c
> +++ b/kernel/params.c
> @@ -567,7 +567,11 @@ static void __init kernel_param_sysfs_se
>  	kobject_set_name(&mk->kobj, name);
>  	kobject_init(&mk->kobj);
>  	ret = kobject_add(&mk->kobj);
> -	BUG_ON(ret < 0);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "module '%s' failed to be added to sysfs, "
> +			"the system will be unstable now.\n", name);
> +		return;
> +	}

It would be nice to print the value of `ret' too.
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