From 3ba8e9fa22797eff6a78e0a1abe8a05f15da734f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhipeng Wang <zhiwang@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:09:57 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ep): demote per-provider ensure_ready failure to debug

Duplicate/legacy EP catalog entries are an expected transient state
during the publisher migration; logging at warning level is noisy.

Fixes #688
---
 src/winml/modelkit/session/ep_registry.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/winml/modelkit/session/ep_registry.py b/src/winml/modelkit/session/ep_registry.py
index 18dd29ba9..32636d2fd 100644
--- a/src/winml/modelkit/session/ep_registry.py
+++ b/src/winml/modelkit/session/ep_registry.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def _load_ep_catalog(self) -> None:
             try:
                 provider.ensure_ready()
             except Exception as e:
-                logger.warning("Failed to ensure EP %s is ready: %s", provider.name, e)
+                logger.debug("Failed to ensure EP %s is ready: %s", provider.name, e)
                 continue
             if provider.library_path == "":
                 continue