Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ASoC: hdac_hdmi: Use dev_info on invalid ELD version

[Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@collabora.com>]

Hi Mark,
On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 06:40:13 EDT Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 03:54:36PM -0400, Detlev Casanova wrote:
> > When disconnected, the ELD data cannot be read by the display driver, so
> > it just sets the data to 0.
> 
> Please don't put patches for different subsystems into the same series
> if there's no dependencies, it just makes dependencies less obvious and
> creates hassle merging things.

Yes, sorry, I'll send v3 of this patch separately.

> > That makes the ELD parsing code read an ELD version of 0, which is
> > invalid. In hdac_hdmi, that is logged with dev_err(), but should be
> > logged with dev_info() instead as it is done in sound/core/pcm_drm_eld.c
> > 
> > This avoids printing multiple messages like:
> >     HDMI: Unknown ELD version 0
> > 
> > in the kernel log when userspace tries to open the sound device.
> 
> It doesn't, it just lowers the severity of the logs that are printed.
> If the goal is to lower the number of messages printed you need to use
> a ratelimited print.

I see, ratelimited would be good, but it still prints a message about 
something that is normal behaviour. Maybe this should go further to a 
dev_dbg(), or is there a specific reason to show this message ?

This could also be a special case:
 - version == 0 -> dev_dbg()
 - version !=0 && != known_versions -> dev_err()

Detlev.