From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753640AbcAHJeG (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 04:34:06 -0500 Received: from er-systems.de ([148.251.68.21]:59460 "EHLO er-systems.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752478AbcAHJeE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 04:34:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:33:48 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Voegtle X-X-Sender: thomas@er-systems.de To: Markus Trippelsdorf cc: Thomas Voegtle , Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD In-Reply-To: <20160107124111.GB320@x4> Message-ID: References: <20151119214301.GA318@x4> <20151119215543.GA4926@pd.tnic> <20151119225828.GB4926@pd.tnic> <20151120071920.GA321@x4> <20151120082716.GA4028@pd.tnic> <20160107121841.GB16472@pd.tnic> <20160107124111.GB320@x4> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LSU 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.99/21237/Fri Jan 8 06:35:32 2016 signatures 55. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: >>>> I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole >>>> Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig". >>> >>> Can you send me that 4.3 config please? >> >> Attached. It is a little bit unusual config without modules etc. >> >> But doesn't dropping Microcde stuff in the config happen to anyone who >> hasn't INITRD stuff switched on? > > Yes. But, as I wrote above, if you simply drop the BLK_DEV_INITRD > dependency, it will work just fine. That's not an option for me. For me this is a serious regression, when a normal make oldconfig silently drops a feature which I had switched on before. Thomas