Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262627AbVDYPwv (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:52:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262634AbVDYPvt (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:51:49 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2739 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262627AbVDYPjV (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:39:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:09:27 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Takashi Ikebe Cc: Kyle Moffett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 Message-ID: <20050425150927.GA2508@elf.ucw.cz> References: <4263275A.2020405@lab.ntt.co.jp> <426C51C4.9040902@lab.ntt.co.jp> <426CC8F7.8070905@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426CC8F7.8070905@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 23 Hi! > Kyle, thank you so much for your detailed information. > If you design completely new software, your suggestion is very useful! > > Unfortunately, we carrier have very many exiting software and try to run > on Linux. > We need to seek the way which can apply to exiting software also... "We want to do the wrong thing because we think its easier". Okay, you are free to do that, but don't try to push that into mainline kernel. Maintain your own patches; if that seems too hard, do the right thing. Pavel -- Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. - 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/