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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>, "C. Slater" <cslater@wcnet.org>,
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Subject: Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting?
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In the future when Linux is more heavily used at the enterprise level
there will likely be upgrade/revert modules to allow such a transition to
take place.

			-Kip

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> > That seems completely out of question.  The structures a 2.4.7
> > kernel understands might be insufficient to express the setup
> > a future 2.6.9 kernel is using to do its stuff better.
> 
> however, it might be handy if say you needed to upgrade a stable
> kernel due to a bug fix or security update.
> 
> no?
> 
> regards,
> -- 
> Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org
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