From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755062AbcAHOsl (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:48:41 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47624 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752033AbcAHOsk (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:48:40 -0500 Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD To: Borislav Petkov References: <20160107121841.GB16472@pd.tnic> <20160108105900.GA14673@pd.tnic> <20160108113641.GE14673@pd.tnic> <20160108120812.GF14673@pd.tnic> <20160108121601.GC320@x4> <20160108122719.GG14673@pd.tnic> <568FB028.1030706@suse.cz> <20160108133725.GH14673@pd.tnic> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf , =?UTF-8?B?TcOlbnMgUnVsbGfDpXJk?= , Thomas Voegtle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <568FCC45.1010301@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:48:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160108133725.GH14673@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2016-01-08 14:37, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: >> You can add a conditional comment like this >> >> comment "WARNING: Early microcode loader requires initramfs support" >> depends on MICROCODE && !BLK_DEV_INITRD >> >> and hope that somebody reads it. > > Actually, I was thinking about something which gets printed when doing > "make oldconfig". In addition to the Kconfig text. The comments are printed during make oldconfig if a symbol in the current menu needs updating. Which is probably not the case here, both MICROCODE and BLK_DEV_INITRD are existing symbols. > I'll take a look once > the stupid cold goes away... Oh, get well soon. Michal