linux-kernel - Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:33:48 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
cc:	Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

> On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>>>> I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole
>>>> Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig".
>>>
>>> Can you send me that 4.3 config please?
>>
>> Attached. It is a little bit unusual config without modules etc.
>>
>> But doesn't dropping Microcde stuff in the config happen to anyone who
>> hasn't INITRD stuff switched on?
>
> Yes. But, as I wrote above, if you simply drop the BLK_DEV_INITRD
> dependency, it will work just fine.


That's not an option for me.

For me this is a serious regression, when a normal make oldconfig silently 
drops a feature which I had switched on before.



   Thomas