Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:57:41 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system |
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:26:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > which makes me wonder whether we still need that OLD INTERFACE. > > Henrique, any thoughts here? > > Well, there are distros out there that only have microcode.ctl, so you > should give them _some_ advanced warning.
Ok, I think Fedora was one of them.
But yeah, the advanced warning is a good idea.
> As far as I am concerned you can simply deprecate /dev/cpu/microcode for, > say, two kernel releases, and then delete it.
Cool, will do that.
Thanks.
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