linux-kernel - [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

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Message-ID: <20081021064612.4578920c@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:46:12 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

>From 20cba7e9bd227f3fb2e8042403af33be03dc31cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:51:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

Use WARN() rather than a printk() + backtrace();
this gives a more standard format message as well as complete
information (including line numbers etc) that will be collected
by kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
---
 fs/proc/generic.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 7821589..60a359b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -547,9 +547,8 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
 
 	for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
 		if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
-			printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
+			WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
 				dir->name, dp->name);
-			dump_stack();
 			break;
 		}
 
-- 
1.5.5.1



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