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Commit 5f9c01aa authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/microcode: Untangle from BLK_DEV_INITRD



Thomas Voegtle reported that doing oldconfig with a .config which has
CONFIG_MICROCODE enabled but BLK_DEV_INITRD disabled prevents the
microcode loading mechanism from being built.

So untangle it from the BLK_DEV_INITRD dependency so that oldconfig
doesn't turn it off and add an explanatory text to its Kconfig help what
the supported methods for supplying microcode are.

Reported-by: default avatarThomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Tested-by: default avatarThomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 765bdb40
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