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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906220928010.26465@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>,
Jeffrey B Arnold <jbarnold@...lice.com>,
"Waseem S. Daher" <wdaher@...lice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update
has been loaded.
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
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