From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757288AbYIMFLS (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752200AbYIMFLE (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:11:04 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:21121 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbYIMFLB (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:11:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=FWmfPrMRn+kp9D6H/5qDtQ3uPShzYqoyB8JnPEsOd2ygSDMYWNjkxOWjFcSewEcMDr CbvY+KU5Bmxb7EJN7RyXBbOiLyINhY/z1VBFwcHxzTwkCnpRyLJ0UlohTv+MYQPFhzQa ZMlBJ3QMgv9YFyQV6i8BInekYmDjYl2Xvvm0A= Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:12:52 +0400 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Jeffrey Brian Arnold Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Abbott , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates Message-ID: <20080913051252.GA6306@x200.localdomain> References: <1221281397-7045-1-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1221281397-7045-1-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:49:46AM -0400, Jeffrey Brian Arnold wrote: > These RFC patches add support for Ksplice [1], a rebootless update system, > to the kernel. > The basic idea is that Ksplice can apply an update to a running > Linux kernel based only on a source code patch and the original kernel > source. Please, taint kernel after first update so some of us can ignore oopses of hopelessly broken kernels.