[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt25.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:24:56 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

commit da10816e3d923565b470fec78a674baba794ed33 upstream.

ALSA OSS sequencer spews a kernel error message ("ALSA: seq_oss: too
many applications") when user-space tries to open more than the
limit.  This means that it can easily fill the log buffer.

Since it's merely a normal error, it's safe to suppress it via
pr_debug() instead.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c
index b9184d20c39f..beea8c861f49 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ snd_seq_oss_open(struct file *file, int level)

 	dp->index = i;
 	if (i >= SNDRV_SEQ_OSS_MAX_CLIENTS) {
-		pr_err("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n");
+		pr_debug("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n");
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto _error;
 	}