[PATCH alsa-utils] alsactl: Add --quiet option to suppress alsa-lib error messages
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Thu Oct 28 08:18:08 CEST 2021
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 -6
> >
> > that 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.
thanks,
Takashi
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