Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754781AbZGBTGb (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:06:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753270AbZGBTGL (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:06:11 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:37939 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751897AbZGBTGK (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:06:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Arnold X-X-Sender: jbarnold@vinegar-pot.mit.edu To: Pavel Machek 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 In-Reply-To: <20090630063152.GC1351@ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20090630063152.GC1351@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 19 On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hmmm, so what are its limits? How much manual work is involved? The Ksplice technical paper (http://www.ksplice.com/paper) describes in detail how Ksplice works--including what it can do automatically and what requires assistance from a programmer or other tools. > Lets say I want 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31-rc1... that's just source patch, right? For now, we're using Ksplice to apply bug-fix patches, such as from the stable tree (2.6.29 -> 2.6.29.5, not 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31). - Jeff -- 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/