From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_NEOMUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C49FC43387 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A731218C3 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730157AbeLSRVc (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:21:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55494 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728199AbeLSRVb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:21:31 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BF2781DED; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from treble (ovpn-120-179.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.120.179]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DD79101E5A5; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:21:27 -0600 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Miroslav Benes , yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, michal.lkml@markovi.net, jeyu@kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled Message-ID: <20181219172127.o753af7pkrsttcgl@treble> References: <20181219141744.32392-1-mbenes@suse.cz> <20181219165428.5udrppedpdvf2u7k@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:58:53PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > This option only makes sense for source-based patch generation, so isn't > > it a bit premature to make this change without proper source-based patch > > tooling? > > The reality is though that before the full-fledged patch tooling exists, > people are actually already writing livepatches by hand, so this option is > useful for them. Fair enough. Though, upstream, almost everybody seems to use kpatch-build, for which this patch doesn't help. And people will continue to do so until we have decent source-based tooling. Will the klp-convert patches be revived soon? -- Josh