Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755367AbZFVOyk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:54:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751844AbZFVOya (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:54:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51756 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752427AbZFVOya (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:54:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tim Abbott Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Jon Masters , Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Arjan van de Ven , Alexey Dobriyan , Anders Kaseorg , Jeffrey B Arnold , "Waseem S. Daher" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. Message-Id: <20090622075346.e9489feb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1245442307.16209.66.camel@laptop> <1245657114.3265.4074.camel@perihelion.bos.jonmasters.org> <1245660614.19816.203.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 22 On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott wrote: > 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. > Have the ksplice people considered using /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and TAINT_USER? -- 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/