From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933576Ab1CXVrt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:47:49 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:15888 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755215Ab1CXVrq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:47:46 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,239,1299484800"; d="scan'208";a="901484352" From: Andi Kleen To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Burt Triplett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BITS handling of CPU microcode updates References: <4D65EE74.1050709@pbjtriplett.org> <20110312023001.GB27550@khazad-dum.debian.net> <4D87E2CD.6020306@pbjtriplett.org> <20110324001451.GA7950@khazad-dum.debian.net> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:46:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20110324001451.GA7950@khazad-dum.debian.net> (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:14:51 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > > Very well, I will send patches to fix that behaviour, as well as some > other stuff I noticed that was not updated to match the recommended > actions documented by the SDM and some Intel application notes. I don't think you can easily -- there's no kernel interface to distingush the "explicit user action" case from automatic loading. This all would need a new kernel interface. I suppose all the test labs have learned by now how to disable automatic updates ... -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only