From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754973Ab3L2COc (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:14:32 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:55858 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752030Ab3L2CO3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:14:29 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Ingo Molnar" , "Thomas Renninger" , "Borislav Petkov" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 054/185] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 31.18.200.85 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Renninger commit 11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa upstream. 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384274383-43510-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcod snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86); if (request_firmware(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) { - pr_err("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name); + pr_debug("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name); goto out; }