From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752861AbaIAT7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 15:59:36 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:56514 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751421AbaIAT7f (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 15:59:35 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 44zPXc5ziEwH1TKamzc7rL6W9Mw+b1cjEYqFEuuWFy9j 1409601573 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:59:21 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Borislav Petkov , Fenghua Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime? Message-ID: <20140901195921.GA18675@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20140809231911.GA4843@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140831194548.GA12628@khazad-dum.debian.net> <54037C07.8060703@zytor.com> <20140831201126.GB12628@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140901051302.GA28402@nazgul.tnic> <5404A035.3070707@zytor.com> <20140901174322.GA15533@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > No, it is worse to rename it and have older kernels behave differently. > Kernel options are basically super obscure to most people anyway. Ok, so rename is out, although as long as the rename was accepted for 3.16-stable, it would be just 3.16 and 3.16.1 (and maybe 3.16.2) that would not have the new name. Options left are "keep it as is", or "add new and [optionally] deprecate old". I can't really tell for sure which one you'd prefer from your previous answer. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh