linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:10:28 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...e.de,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location

On 01/14/2014 05:58 AM, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Commit-ID:  bad5fa631fca5466401cd4a48e30cc1f1cb6101e
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bad5fa631fca5466401cd4a48e30cc1f1cb6101e
> Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> AuthorDate: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 18:09:58 +0100
> Committer:  Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> CommitDate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:00:12 +0100
> 
> x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
> 
> We've grown a bunch of microcode loader files all prefixed with
> "microcode_". They should be under cpu/ because this is strictly
> CPU-related functionality so do that and drop the prefix since they're
> in their own directory now which gives that prefix. :)
> 
> While at it, drop MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB config item and stash the
> functionality under CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL as it was its only user.
> 

Quite frankly I would be much happier if we didn't stash so much under
arch/x86/kernel/cpu ... quite frankly it feels like almost *anything*
could go under there.  The microcode code, for example, could go under
its own subtree.

Both kernel and kernel/cpu really could use a house cleaning and
actually separate things out into better categories and avoid needlessly
deep pathnames.

	-hpa


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