From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753033AbcAHM12 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:27:28 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35229 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751918AbcAHM11 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:27:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:27:19 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Markus Trippelsdorf Cc: =?utf-8?B?TcOlbnMgUnVsbGfDpXJk?= , Thomas Voegtle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD Message-ID: <20160108122719.GG14673@pd.tnic> References: <20151120082716.GA4028@pd.tnic> <20160107121841.GB16472@pd.tnic> <20160108105900.GA14673@pd.tnic> <20160108113641.GE14673@pd.tnic> <20160108120812.GF14673@pd.tnic> <20160108121601.GC320@x4> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160108121601.GC320@x4> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:16:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > But you take the choice away from people like me, who don't need initrd > at all. BLK_DEV_INITRD is a superfluous dependency in this case, because > microcode update works perfectly well without it. Damn, you have a valid point too. I need to think about it... ... well, the only thing I can think of right now is to remove the dependency on BLK_DEV_INITRD completely - I believe this is what you proposed initially Markus - and add a BIG FAT SUGGESTION to Kconfig saying that people should strive for enabling early microcode loading if possible. This is the only way I see we can handle "make oldconfig" without BLK_DEV_INITRD and microcode built-in into the kernel cases relatively fair. Hmmm. Or I could hack "oldconfig" to issue that warning... Lemme think about it and see how much Michal would scream at me for it. :-) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --