From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: add parameter dis_ucode_ldr in kernel-paramenters.txt
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:09:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540DFED8.5080909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140905085709.GC11432@nazgul.tnic>
On 09/05/2014 01:57 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
>> This patch adds the explanation for this parameter in
>> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for user convenience.
>
> As I said earlier, I don't want to do exactly that because this
> parameter should be used only to rule out microcode loading causes a
> problem and not regularly. I know, it doesn't stop people from looking
> at the code but still.
>
Are you genuinely saying we shouldn't document this command line
parameter? Sorry, it really doesn't work that way.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 19:07 [PATCH] x86/microcode: add parameter dis_ucode_ldr in kernel-paramenters.txt Fenghua Yu
2014-09-05 8:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-09 6:48 ` Borislav Petkov
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