linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 77/78] ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message

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Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:46:58 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Kouta Okamoto <kouta.okamoto@...hiba.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 77/78] ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit bed2e98e1f4db8b827df507abc30be7b11b0613d upstream.

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@...e.de>
Cc: Kouta Okamoto <kouta.okamoto@...hiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/hda/hdac_i915.c     |    2 +-
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c
+++ b/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ out_master_del:
 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;
 }
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -2088,9 +2088,11 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx
 			 * 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;
 		}