On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 04:42:34PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
And also changes _soc_pcm_ret() to not log for -EINVAL errors, to fix the other error. Userspace passing wrong parameters should not lead to dmesg messages.
Maybe, but it's a questionable flow if pipewire tries to open stuff without the mixer values set-up. Is there something done about this?
I think it's an oft-seen problem when user runs the system without installing a proper UCM profile.
Yeah, it's really easy to do.
It really makes no sense for userspace to try and open devices that are known to be problematic. We can push kernel error logs below the rug, it doesn't make the programming flows better.
Downgrading the message also hides to show what's wrong there. Although the message doesn't indicate how to fix the problem, no message would make debug harder.
So in general I agree that it's annoying and it should be fixed, but hiding all as default can be bad, too. Maybe we can introduce a counter and shut out after three strikes?
Hrm, do systems typically filter out debug logs? Most of the systems I work on do still log debug logs, they just only include them in dmesg by default. There are ratelimited printk APIs which we could use, though they're not quite ratelimited enough for this I think.