[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Add overflow detection support

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> Similar to short circuit detection, when the ADC/DAC is saturated and
> overflows poor audio quality can result and should be reported to the
> user. This device support Automatic Dynamic Range Compression (DRC)
> to reduce this but it is not enabled currently in this driver.

> +	if (value & AIC31XX_DAC_OF_LEFT)
> +		dev_err(dev, "Left-channel DAC overflow has occurred\n");
> +	if (value & AIC31XX_DAC_OF_RIGHT)
> +		dev_err(dev, "Right-channel DAC overflow has occurred\n");

So, this will sound terrible but I'm not sure that unconditionally
shouting in the logs is the right thing to do here - people do sometimes
put non-audio signals through sound cards (using them as generic DACs
and ADCs) and it seems like it could get very spammy.  Perhaps a lower
level warning message, some counters or even some control that allows
the warnings to be masked.
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