linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don' t treat a missing firmware file as an error

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Message-ID: <20131112224511.GJ12854@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:45:11 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, trenn@...e.de, bp@...e.de
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don' t
 treat a missing firmware file as an error

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:58:00PM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Commit-ID:  11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa
> Author:     Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:43 +0100
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:03:49 +0100
> 
> x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error
> 
> 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>
> Cc: <stable@...nel.org>

Shouldn't that be <stable@...r.kernel.org> ?

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    Boris.

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