Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location

Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14T16:36:27Z

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:22:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Absolutely. I think moving arch/x86/kernel/cpu/ to arch/x86/cpu/
> would be a first good step. It's all kernel code, there's other
> subdirectories there that are kernel code ('pci/', 'platform/', etc.),
> so there's little point in continuing the historic accident of a
> 'kernel/' subdirectory.
>
> Once that is done we can move certain things outside as well - for
> example arch/x86/cpu/perf/ could probably move to arch/x86/events/,
> because that code is not about CPU events anymore either.

All fine and dandy with me, but I'd prefer to do this after the merge
window, i.e. for 3.15. Rushing it now would just cause unnecessary
trouble IMO.

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