Re: [PATCH] x86/its: Warn when microcode is old

[Dave Hansen]

On 6/12/25 06:19, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> On a second thought, cpu_set_bug_bits() already issues a warning, and even
> taints the kernel when old microcode is detected. So warning here seems
> redundant, and also misleading as you said. I am okay dropping this patch.

Yep, that was the whole point of X86_BUG_OLD_MICROCODE. It's one, big,
bad, scary warning so that we don't have to do it for all the individual
little bad things that happen when you have old microcode.