This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-microcode-amd-tone-down-printk-don-t-treat-a-missing-firmware-file-as-an-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 11f918d3e2d3861b6931e97b3aa778e4984935aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:43 +0100 Subject: x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> 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 <trenn@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384274383-43510-1-git-send-email-trenn@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ 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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trenn@xxxxxxx are queue-3.4/x86-microcode-amd-tone-down-printk-don-t-treat-a-missing-firmware-file-as-an-error.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html