Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752523AbYKWUxq (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:53:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751681AbYKWUxf (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:53:35 -0500 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:43622 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867AbYKWUxe (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:53:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:53:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Arnold To: Andi Kleen cc: Nikanth Karthikesan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, mhiramat@redhat.com, contact@ksplice.com, jbarnold@ksplice.com, tabbott@ksplice.com, wdaher@ksplice.com, andersk@ksplice.com Subject: Re: [RFC] kreplace: Rebootless kernel updates In-Reply-To: <87myfqi65d.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <200811211720.26394.knikanth@suse.de> <87myfqi65d.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 21 > I suspect that it wasn't mainline? OK. We're aware of that problem and are working on it ;) > The usual problem is that it's much easier to get simple patches > in than complicated ones. Right. Unfortunately, if you make a hot update system's design too simple, it can be dangerous and will potentially do more harm than good. If there's anything that I can do to help people understand our code and why we think that it's as simple as you'd want a hot update system to be, please let me know. Jeff Arnold jbarnold@mit.edu -- 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/