Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:44 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:14858 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4D78E7.24CF2660@idb.hist.no> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:16:07 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "C. Slater" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting? In-Reply-To: <001501c10980$f42035a0$fe00000a@cslater> <3B4C180E.D3AE1960@idb.hist.no> <005f01c10a20$03baf5a0$fe00000a@cslater> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "C. Slater" wrote: > > Unless we find some other way to do it, i think we will have to limit this > to only switching between kernels with the same minor version. We probably > would not beable to swap between 2.4 and 2.6 anyways, though it depends on > what changes are made. Minor versions won't help you. Different minor versions try to stay interface-compatible with each other. But data structures not exposed to interfaces can still be rewritten completely. Lots of nice ideas and implementations have piled up for 2.5. Those who proves immensely successfull in 2.5 may get backported to 2.4 once they get enough testing. Try reading a few months worth of kernel patches and you'll see that things change in stable kernels too. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/