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


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 kernel/params.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index effbaae..4e57732 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -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);
 }
-- 
1.5.2.2

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