Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don' ttreat a missing firmware file as an error

[Ingo Molnar]

* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:58:00PM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa
> > Author:     Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:43 +0100
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:03:49 +0100
> > 
> > x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error
> > 
> > Do it the same way as done in microcode_intel.c: use pr_debug()
> > for missing firmware files.
> > 
> > There seem to be CPUs out there for which no microcode update
> > has been submitted to kernel-firmware repo yet resulting in
> > scary sounding error messages in dmesg:
> > 
> >   microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Shouldn't that be <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ?

Indeed that is the documented alias, although stable@xxxxxxxxxx works as 
well and is used frequently:

  comet:~/tip> git log v3.0..v3.12 | grep 'stable@xxxxxxxxxx' | wc -l
  1390
  comet:~/tip> git log v3.0..v3.12 | grep 'stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' | wc -l
  4750

Thanks,

	Ingo
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