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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:15:59 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch-2.4.18] serialize microcode updates
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Greetings Marcelo,
> 
> The attached patch is against 2.4.18 and serializes the microcode update
> because it has to be done like that in certain cases and it does no harm
> to do it in all cases.
> 
> Also, it avoids the silly message "upgrading from N to M" where M==N,
> which was confusing enough to generate lots of email in my inbox :)
> Because now only one update can happen at a time the above workaround is
> no longer needed so it was removed.

Tigran, 

Your patch does not apply cleanly to my tree...


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