On 28. 10. 21 8:18, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:25:29 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On 27. 10. 21 16:40, Takashi Iwai wrote:
alsactl prints error messages from alsa-lib as is, and it's rather annoying to see the error messages like
alsactl[xxx]: alsa-lib parser.c:242:(error_node) UCM is not supported for this HDA model (HDA Intel PCH...) alsactl[xxx]: alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use case configuration -6that are recorded in the syslog at each boot.
This patch adds --quiet (or -q) option to suppress those error messages from alsa-lib, and applies to the systemd services as default.
The fix is inaccurate as it's just a warning not an error.
But it says "error" :)
The question is, how to signal those warnings to users to eliminate the confusion.
The suppression of all alsa-lib errors does not seem like a good idea to me.
At least the messages that are no real errors should not be shown in that way. It's nothing but confusing.
From the UCM perspective, it's an error, because the configuration is missing. UCM does not know anything about the legacy fallback. But yes, we should not confuse users. I tried to fix this in another way. It should hide only those specific messages.
https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/commit/af62c72e2d6db960405eb1bd8d...
https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/23198a72cd4f8f8759e650362b4a...
Jaroslav