Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261505AbVDQUmV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:42:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261526AbVDQUkW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:40:22 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:32199 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261527AbVDQUi0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:38:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:32:52 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: ikebe.takashi@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 & x86_64: Live Patching Funcion on 2.6.11.7 Message-Id: <20050417133252.353a5666.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050417185143.GA5002@nevyn.them.org> References: <4261DC62.1070300@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20050416234439.5464e188.davem@davemloft.net> <20050417185143.GA5002@nevyn.them.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Content-Length: 637 Lines: 14 On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:51:43 -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Takashi-san's description was not very clear, but it sounds like it's a > patching mechanism for userspace applications - not for kernel space. > So kprobes would not be a good fit. I saw the presentation of this stuff at the Linux Kernel conference last year in Tokyo. I'm pretty sure it's for the kernel. :-) - 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/