From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
Takashi Ikebe <ikebe.takashi@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:10:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050418091021.GC1236@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426385FB.1080701@superbug.co.uk>
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:03:39AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I can only think of one other system that might benefit from live
> updates, and that is set top boxes, so bugs can be fixed without the
> user knowing.
hardly mission critical and usually don't have the resources to do
complicate things
much better to rexec/reboot as needed
> This also can be worked around by downloading the bug fixes and only
> installing the bugs fixes when the user is not viewing the
> TV. E.g. When the box has been placed in standby by the user.
again it doesn't need live patching (satellite and cable boxes update
themselves routinely, some certainly do need to periodically reboot to
do this and it's apparently not a problem)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 3:19 Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 4:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 4:19 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 4:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-18 4:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-04-18 5:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-04-18 5:41 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-07-11 7:18 ` [PATCH] eventpoll : Suppress a short lived lock from struct file Eric Dumazet
2005-07-11 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-07-11 9:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-11 14:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-07-11 15:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-04-18 5:00 ` [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 David S. Miller
2005-04-18 6:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 6:35 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-18 6:48 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 10:03 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2005-04-18 9:10 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2005-04-18 7:32 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 7:56 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 8:37 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 8:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 9:16 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-18 9:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-18 11:30 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-18 12:52 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 14:06 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-19 2:14 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-19 4:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-19 5:19 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-19 5:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-20 4:18 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-20 5:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-20 7:35 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-20 7:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-20 7:57 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-20 8:26 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-20 8:45 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-20 8:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-20 11:19 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-20 15:06 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-20 8:34 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2005-04-19 5:57 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-18 14:28 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-20 13:10 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-04-20 15:08 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-23 16:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-25 2:11 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-25 2:48 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-04-25 10:39 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-25 11:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-04-25 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-25 15:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-25 16:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-26 1:34 ` Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-26 2:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-04-26 9:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 13:05 ` Andi Kleen
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2005-04-18 10:59 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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