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From: Fabio Forni <development@redaril.me>
Cc: Fabio Forni <development@redaril.me>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC 2/3] ASoC: simple-card: Replace "parse error" with a more descriptive msg
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:12:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260112231855.193030-3-development@redaril.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260112231855.193030-1-development@redaril.me>

"parse error" is misleading: it made me think the device tree contains
syntax errors, or phandles of the wrong type were passed to the
simple-audio-card node. Instead in my case, the `sound-dai` subnode of
`simple-audio-card,cpu` was referring to an uninitialized device, because
its kernel module wasn't loaded yet.

As far as I understood, simple_probe fails when components composing
the sound card are missing or simply not ready.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Forni <development@redaril.me>
---
 sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
index 8d36cbbfca1d..298f8cc98130 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ static int simple_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 err:
 	simple_util_clean_reference(card);
 end:
-	return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "parse error\n");
+	return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "components missing or uninitialized\n");
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id simple_of_match[] = {
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-12 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-12 23:12 [RFC 0/3] simple-card: Improve probe's error messages Fabio Forni
2026-01-12 23:12 ` [RFC 1/3] ASoC: simple-card: Do not print "parse error" twice Fabio Forni
2026-01-13  2:29   ` Kuninori Morimoto
2026-01-13  8:24     ` Fabio
2026-01-12 23:12 ` Fabio Forni [this message]
2026-01-12 23:12 ` [RFC 3/3] ASoC: simple-card: Split alloc and init logics in probe function Fabio Forni
2026-01-13  2:33   ` Kuninori Morimoto
2026-01-13 22:31     ` Fabio
2026-01-20  6:32       ` Kuninori Morimoto
2026-01-24 10:23         ` Fabio
2026-01-26  0:56           ` Kuninori Morimoto

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