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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:42:17 +0100
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Subject: Re: live kernel upgrades (was: live kernel patching design)
From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanvandeven@gmail.com>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, live-patching@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Of course, if you are random Joe User, you can do whatever you want, i.e.
> also compile your own home-brew patches and apply them randomly and brick
> your system that way. But that's in no way different to what you as Joe
> User can do today; there is nothing that will prevent you from shooting
> yourself in a foot if you are creative.

Sorry if I ask something that got already discussed, I did not follow
the whole live-patching discussion.

How much of the userspace tools will be public available?
With live-patching mainline the kernel offers the mechanism, but
random Joe user still needs
the tools to create good live patches.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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