Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753872Ab2FSDbs (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:31:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48921 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752545Ab2FSDbr (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4FDFF27C.5000205@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:31:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Borislav Petkov , LKML , x86 , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Andreas Herrmann , Dimitri Sivanich , Dmitry Adamushko , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system References: <1339521996.31548.95.camel@twins> <20120612173506.GB4802@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120613010413.GA28174@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20120613065119.GB15661@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120613123649.GA26012@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20120613161139.GA18450@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120615123749.GC6083@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <1339764161.2559.63.camel@twins> <20120615125240.GD6083@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120615165231.GA9169@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120619024639.GB6186@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20120619024639.GB6186@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 26 On 06/18/2012 07:46 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It is a pity this one is much harder to backport to 3.2 and 3.0. I'd > really like to have the new interface there. But it looks good, and we > will support the new /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload sysfs node > in Debian for the benefit of anyone using a newer kernel than the > distro's (which will be based on 3.2). > > So, fwiw, you have my: > Acked-by-unimportant-person: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > I have to admit to being slightly questioning to the whole "sysfs trigger, request_firmware" interface... it seems royally backwards to me (it makes sense for the initial firmware load, I guess, but that is better done early.) Either way I don't have a hugely strong preference. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/