Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754959AbZGAJAf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:00:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753932AbZGAJA2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:00:28 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58163 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754406AbZGAJA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:00:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeff Arnold Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tabbott@ksplice.com, wdaher@ksplice.com, andersk@ksplice.com, nelhage@ksplice.com, price@ksplice.com, geofft@ksplice.com Subject: Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Message-ID: <20090630063152.GC1351@ucw.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1232 Lines: 29 On Thu 2009-06-25 05:51:56, Jeff Arnold wrote: > Hello, > > The Ksplice team [1] is now providing rebootless kernel updates for Ubuntu > 9.04 Jaunty to anyone who configures their machine to receive them [2]. > In short, users can click a few buttons and start getting all of the > Ubuntu kernel security updates applied to their system without rebooting. > No initial kernel changes are needed. Nice advertisment... > Ksplice applies traditional source code patches to unmodified Linux > kernels. It can be used to apply all of the Linux security patches over > multiple years [7], and it can also apply reliability patches and other > bug fixes, such as from the Linux stable tree. Hmmm, so what are its limits? How much manual work is involved? Lets say I want 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31-rc1... that's just source patch, right? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/