Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753711AbZFVNdq (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:33:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751129AbZFVNdi (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:33:38 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:42825 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750958AbZFVNdi (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:33:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Abbott X-X-Sender: tabbott@vinegar-pot.mit.edu To: Peter Zijlstra cc: Jon Masters , Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Arjan van de Ven , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , Anders Kaseorg , Jeffrey B Arnold , "Waseem S. Daher" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. In-Reply-To: <1245660614.19816.203.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <1245442307.16209.66.camel@laptop> <1245657114.3265.4074.camel@perihelion.bos.jonmasters.org> <1245660614.19816.203.camel@twins> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) 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: 674 Lines: 18 On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > But without ksplice patches you cannot ksplice, right? That is, there is > a non trivial patch to the kernel to make this happen afaik. If distros > ship that, then they can add this taint flag as well. No need to burden > mainline with any of that until it ksplice proper makes it in. No, Ksplice can patch completely unmodified upstream and distribution kernels. -Tim Abbott -- 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/