[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] sound/usb: pcm changes to use media token api

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:10:37 -0600,
Shuah Khan wrote:
> 
> On 10/16/2014 06:00 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > On 10/14/2014 04:58 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > [...]
> >>       switch (cmd) {
> >>       case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
> >> +        err = media_get_audio_tkn(&subs->dev->dev);
> >> +        if (err == -EBUSY) {
> >> +            dev_info(&subs->dev->dev, "%s device is busy\n",
> >> +                    __func__);
> > 
> > In my opinion this should not dev_info() as this is out of band error
> > signaling and also as the potential to spam the log. The userspace
> > application is already properly notified by the return code.
> > 
> 
> Yes it has the potential to flood the dmesg especially with alsa,
> I will remove the dev_info().

Yes.  And, I think doing this in the trigger isn't the best.
Why not in open & close?

Also, is this token restriction needed only for PCM?  No mixer or
other controls?


Takashi