linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo

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Message-ID: <20111019142057.GA26786@aftab>
Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:20:57 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to
 /proc/cpuinfo

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:25:10AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The standard way we mention commits in changelogs is:
> 
>   Enable microcode revision output for AMD after commit 506ed6b53e00 
>   ("x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo") did it 
>   for Intel.
> 
> ... because humans are pretty bad at transforming sha1's to the real 
> commit title when reading such text.

Why, I thought transforming sha1's to commit messages is one of the job
requirements of serious kernel hackers.

:-)

> Please fix the changelog for the first commit as well.

Done, git branch at

git://amd64.org/linux/bp.git tip-ucode

updated.

Thanks.

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