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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:29:16 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] kreplace: Rebootless kernel updates
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Balbir Singh wrote:

> Undoubtedly, but a good warning is the best way to keep people warned about
> running such code :) It is a useful thing to have and to run, but running it
> would take more guts than anything else.

There is significant demand for this sort of thing in the 
telecom/enterprise space, where they would like to apply kernel patches 
(especially security patches and bugfixes) with minimal downtime.

Chris
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