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

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Message-ID: <52D590C9.1070602@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:32:25 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	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 11:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:18:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> arch/x86/cpu/microcode seems clean. I'm wondering if what is mostly
>> currently in arch/x86/kernel/cpu should be mostly in something like
>> arch/x86/cpu/init.
> 
> Yeah, I can start reorganizing stuff slowly and with time, the best
> place will dawn on us. One thing's for sure, the "kernel" in the path is
> kinda redundant because, as Ingo said, it is all kernel.
> 

Indeed.

	-hpa

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