On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 12:21 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >>If you think that changing the two snd_soc calls to print errors
> >>when anything bad happens then that would also be a good idea then
> >>I can send a patch for that.

> >That would be better, yes.

> In my opinion it's better to pass the error on to the upper levels.
> E.g. if userspace opens the PCM device and there is an IO error in
> the startup callback then that error should be passed on to the
> userspace application rather than doing a out of band error
> reporting and adding a entry to the kernel log.

It would, overall, be much better to be passing errors back.  However
what's actually happening now is I/O errors are routinely ignored and
our error handling is somewhat shaky (and realistically it's hard to
know what to do a lot of the time when I/O with the device is failing).
Given that improving the diagnostics seems like it's going in the right
direction, we can always remove this later.