From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Organization: suse.de
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] kreplace: Rebootless kernel updates
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:37:43 +0530
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On Friday 21 November 2008 21:34:43 Balbir Singh wrote:
> Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 05:20:25PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
>
> I had a patch for x86 a long time ago in 2005, but I never posted it :(
>

I just didn't wanted to say that after some time. ;)

>
> Yes and we need to be careful about licensing, tainting the kernel with
> such an implementation.
>

Agreed.

> > Kprobes themselves provide enough ammunition to users to shoot themselves
> > in the foot, but this is way more dangerous than that.
> > ...
>
> 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.

Thanks for the comments.

Thanks
Nikanth Karthikesan


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