microcode: Use request_firmware_direct()
Use the new helper, request_firmware_direct(), for avoiding the lengthy timeout of non-existing firmware loads. Especially the Intel microcode driver suffers from this problem because each CPU triggers the f/w loading, thus it ends up taking (literally) hours with many cores. Tested-by:Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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