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From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] livepatch: Atomic replace feature
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> The atomic replace allows to create cumulative patches. They
> are useful when you maintain many livepatches and want to remove
> one that is lower on the stack. In addition it is very useful when
> more patches touch the same function and there are dependencies
> between them.

So I ported my old silly kgraft modules to livepatch and it works well. It 
does not say that much, because the tests are really simple stupid, but at 
least something.

Miroslav