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: <20131112230138.GL12854@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:01:38 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, trenn@...e.de,
	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

(fixed stable@...r).

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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> ?

Yes, it should:

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-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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