Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965167AbVITWS7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:18:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965165AbVITWS6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:18:58 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.200]:37438 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965175AbVITWS6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:18:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XCezJNZSwD7x+7bqfmvERm2he38ocMWI4BnvVQpiMHxqhyWBFNzrW9Y/dn3kC3HJvwTbZtq0td5z1bMbyB1lFnH3OZ5+/SgYqjnYfS686b3Mh5TAhnq27B44QIs8uLEXNLxcy8mae7fvwUWrlYdXfczI3UHnmnHPBqkslmCpu9Y= Message-ID: <9a8748490509201518248b66d1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:18:50 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: jesper.juhl@gmail.com To: John Richard Moser Subject: Re: Hot-patching Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43308815.1000200@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43308815.1000200@comcast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 26 On 9/21/05, John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oftentimes distributions spin on a stable kernel, but occasionally > update it for security bugs. This then demands a reboot, or you sit on > a buggy kernel for however long. > This has been discussed time and time again on this list and elsewhere over the years. The most recent discussion I recall is the "[PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7" thread which drew over 50 comments and got into a lot of corners - I'd suggest you go read it in the archives. Spend a little time searching and you'll find several other threads about this in lkml archives. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/