linux-kernel - Re: [Patch V1 7/7] x86/microcode/intel: Print when early microcode loading fails

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Message-ID: <87v8mtob6b.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:30:52 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     X86-kernel <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, alison.schofield@...el.com,
        reinette.chatre@...el.com
Subject: Re: [Patch V1 7/7] x86/microcode/intel: Print when early microcode
 loading fails

On Tue, Nov 29 2022 at 13:08, Ashok Raj wrote:

> Currently when early microcode loading fails there is no way for user to

the user

> know that the update failed.
>
> Store the failed status and pass it to print_ucode_info() to let early
> loading failures to captured in console log.

so that early loading failures are captured in dmesg.

Hmm?