linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 264/272] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error

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Date:	Fri,  6 Dec 2013 12:59:13 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 264/272] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error

3.11.10.1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>

commit 11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa upstream.

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@...e.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384274383-43510-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index 7123b5d..803a3e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_amd(int cpu, struct device *device,
 		snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86);
 
 	if (request_firmware(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
-		pr_err("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name);
+		pr_debug("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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