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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system
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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