Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:18:51AM +0000, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
> Neither "depends on" nor "select" makes sense to me here.  The driver
> apparently works without it,

The driver works without it if you build your microcode into the kernel.

There are use cases where building microcode into the kernel is *not* a
viable option so we have to support both builtin microcode and microcode
from the initrd.

> and simply having BLK_DEV_INITRD enabled doesn't prevent improper
> (according to some people) use of the driver. If updating microcode
> is inherently unsafe when a real disk is mounted, the driver ought
> to detect this and refuse the operation (possibly with an override
> option).

Huh, what?

-ENOPARSE.

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