[PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Remove the driver announcement and version

Borislav Petkov
2023-11-15T21:03:06Z

From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>

First of all, the print is useless. The driver will either load and say
which microcode revision the machine has or issue an error.

Then, the version number is meaningless and actively confusing, as Yazen
mentioned recently: when a subset of patches are backported to a distro
kernel, one can't assume the driver version is the same as the upstream
one. And besides, the version number of the loader hasn't been used and
incremented for a long time. So drop it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
index 666d25bbc5ad..b4be3a2c79df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@

#include "internal.h"

-#define DRIVER_VERSION "2.2"
-
static struct microcode_ops *microcode_ops;
bool dis_ucode_ldr = true;

@@ -846,8 +844,6 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "x86/microcode:online",
mc_cpu_online, mc_cpu_down_prep);

- pr_info("Microcode Update Driver: v%s.", DRIVER_VERSION);
-
return 0;

out_pdev:
--
2.42.0.rc0.25.ga82fb66fed25