Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ASoC: core: Print one-time messages if missing resources when binding DAIs

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:21:05PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> If snd_soc_find_dai() doesn't find a DAI in soc_bind_dai_link(), a
> error message is printed and an -EPROBE_DEFER errno code returned to
> the caller.

> But since many probe retries can happen before a resource is available,
> the printed messages can spam the kernel log buffer and slow the boot.

> The information is useful to know that a dependency was not meet and a
> defer happened, but isn't necessary to print it on each probe deferral.

This then turns any subsequent failure into a silent one which isn't
great for diagnostics.  It'd be better to look into trying to avoid the
retries in the first place, Raphael's dependency graph stuff looks very
promising here.

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