ALSA OSS sequencer spews a kernel error message ("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications") when user-space tries to open more than the limit. This means that it can easily fill the log buffer.
Since it's merely a normal error, it's safe to suppress it via pr_debug() instead.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c index b1221b29728e..6779e82b46dd 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ snd_seq_oss_open(struct file *file, int level)
dp->index = i; if (i >= SNDRV_SEQ_OSS_MAX_CLIENTS) { - pr_err("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n"); + pr_debug("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n"); rc = -ENOMEM; goto _error; }