From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:11:36 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, trenn@suse.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don' t treat a missing firmware file as an error Message-ID: <20131113021136.GA31650@kroah.com> References: <1384274383-43510-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <20131112224511.GJ12854@pd.tnic> <20131112230138.GL12854@pd.tnic> <20131112231008.GC30674@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131112231008.GC30674@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:10:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > (fixed stable@vger). > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:58:00PM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > > Commit-ID: 11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa > > > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa > > > > Author: Thomas Renninger > > > > AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:43 +0100 > > > > Committer: Ingo Molnar > > > > CommitDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:03:49 +0100 > > > > > > > > x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error > > > > > > > > Do it the same way as done in microcode_intel.c: use pr_debug() > > > > for missing firmware files. > > > > > > > > There seem to be CPUs out there for which no microcode update > > > > has been submitted to kernel-firmware repo yet resulting in > > > > scary sounding error messages in dmesg: > > > > > > > > microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger > > > > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov > > > > Cc: > > > > > > Shouldn't that be ? > > > > Yes, it should: > > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; stable@kernel.org > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.0.0 > > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.kernel.org[198.145.19.201] said: 550 > > 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in > > local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > Hm, that's really weird, I've been using for years and > the commits do get picked up. I also never saw such a mailer failure. > > In any case I've changed my pre-cooked alias to , > but still I'm wondering why seems to be working in > practice - maybe Greg is picking up such commits as well, not via an email > flow but via scripting? Yes, my scripts pick up both, as this is a very common mistake (the address did change after kernel.org got rebuilt, so you were right in remembering this as the original address to use.) So no worries, I can handle both. thanks, greg k-h