Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:10:28 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location |
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On 01/14/2014 05:58 AM, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov wrote: > Commit-ID: bad5fa631fca5466401cd4a48e30cc1f1cb6101e > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bad5fa631fca5466401cd4a48e30cc1f1cb6101e > Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > AuthorDate: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 18:09:58 +0100 > Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > CommitDate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:00:12 +0100 > > x86, microcode: Move to a proper location > > We've grown a bunch of microcode loader files all prefixed with > "microcode_". They should be under cpu/ because this is strictly > CPU-related functionality so do that and drop the prefix since they're > in their own directory now which gives that prefix. :) > > While at it, drop MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB config item and stash the > functionality under CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL as it was its only user. >
Quite frankly I would be much happier if we didn't stash so much under arch/x86/kernel/cpu ... quite frankly it feels like almost *anything* could go under there. The microcode code, for example, could go under its own subtree.
Both kernel and kernel/cpu really could use a house cleaning and actually separate things out into better categories and avoid needlessly deep pathnames.
-hpa
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