Couldn't read Speaker Allocation Data Block/SADs

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:11 AM Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since I connected my Dell display on my Radeon R5 240 (Oland) card over
> DisplayPort instead of VGA, I get the following error messages logged at every boot:
>
> [drm:dce_v6_0_encoder_mode_set [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Couldn't read Speaker Allocation Data Block: -2
> [drm:dce_v6_0_encoder_mode_set [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Couldn't read SADs: -2
>
> I also see them each time the display wakes up and also on VT change.
> This is with kernel 5.2.9.
>
> This was also reported as bug #107825 by Paul Menzel:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107825
>
> Error -2 is ENOENT (No such file or directory). The driver queries the
> display for audio-related information, while my display does not have
> speakers nor headset connector.
>
> I suspect that the "error" is pretty much expected in this case and the
> driver is being too verbose about it. Either the calling code should
> consider -ENOENT as a non-error (11 calling sites to fix), or the
> helper functions should simply return 0 when no audio-related data is
> available from the display (2 functions to fix, calling sites may have
> to be inspected too as some treat 0 as an error too, which seems
> incorrect to me).
>
> Option 1 seems cleaner to me, but I don't know if there could be
> legitimate reasons to distinguish between no audio information block
> from display and empty audio information from display in the future.
>
> What do you think?

Feel free to remove the message or make it debug only.

Thanks!

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
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