patch "kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures" added to driver-core-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:22:43 +0200
Subject: kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures

This WARNING proved to be noisy. The function still returns an error and callers should handle it. That's how most of kernel code works. Downgrade the WARNING to pr_err() and leave WARNINGs for kernel bugs.

---
 lib/kobject.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

index e1d1f290bf35..18989b5b3b56 100644
@@ -233,13 +233,12 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)
 
 		/* be noisy on error issues */
 		if (error == -EEXIST)
-			WARN(1,
-			     "%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
-			     __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
+			pr_err("%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
+			       __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
 		else
-			WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
-			     __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
-			     parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
+			pr_err("%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
+			       __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
+			       parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
 	} else
 		kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;
 

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