Commit 74c5b597 authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman
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modules: better error messages when modules fail to load due to a sysfs problem. 



This helps people when debugging problems like the ones that were in the
recent -mm releases.


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent f285ea05

kernel/params.c

+6 −1
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@@ -567,7 +567,12 @@ static void __init kernel_param_sysfs_setup(const char *name, 
	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, "

		      "error number %d\n", name, ret);

		printk(KERN_ERR	"The system will be unstable now.\n");

		return;

	}

	param_sysfs_setup(mk, kparam, num_params, name_skip);

	kobject_uevent(&mk->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);

}