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Message-ID: <20120412224527.GB22089@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:27 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Cc:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:34:22PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:51:57 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for supported AMD CPUs
> 
> Exit early when there's no support for a particular CPU family. Also,
> fixup the "no support for this CPU vendor" to be issued only when the
> driver is attempted to be loaded on an unsupported vendor.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
> [Boris: added a commit msg because Andreas is lazy]
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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