Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don' ttreat a missing firmware file as an error

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 12 2013 - 18:02:15 EST


(fixed stable@vger).

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@xxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:43 +0100
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Shouldn't that be <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ?

Yes, it should:

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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