Commit bed2e98e authored Jan 20, 2016 by Takashi Iwai

ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message

Currently HD-audio driver on Intel Skylake or Broxteon gives an error
message when binding with i915 audio component fails.  However, this
isn't any serious error on a system without Intel graphics.  Indeed
there are such systems, where a third-party codec (e.g. Creative) is
put on the mobo while using other discrete GPU (e.g. Nvidia).
Printing a kernel "error" message is overreaction in such a case.

This patch downgrades the print level for that message.  For systems
that mandate the i915 binding (e.g. Haswell or Broadwell HDMI/DP),
another kernel error message is shown in addition to make clear what
went wrong.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111021


Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

parent 3568459a

sound/hda/hdac_i915.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ int snd_hdac_i915_init(struct hdac_bus *bus)
		out_err:
		kfree(acomp);
		bus->audio_component = NULL;
		dev_err(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret);
		dev_info(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret);

		return ret;
		}

sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c

+4 −2

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		@@ -2078,9 +2078,11 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx *chip)
		* for other chips, still continue probing as other
		* codecs can be on the same link.
		*/
		if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci))
		if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci)) {
		dev_err(chip->card->dev,
		"HSW/BDW HD-audio HDMI/DP requires binding with gfx driver\n");
		goto out_free;
		else
		} else
		goto skip_i915;
		}