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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@...lice.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tabbott@...lice.com, wdaher@...lice.com, andersk@...lice.com, nelhage@...lice.com, price@...lice.com, geofft@...lice.com Subject: Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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