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Message-ID: <20090702213823.GB1485@ucw.cz> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:38:23 +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 2009-07-02 15:06:09, Jeff Arnold wrote: > 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. Ok, I see now.. if data structures change, manual intervention required. Only suitable for simple patches. > > 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). Yep, and you'll probably not be able to do major changes, ever. -- (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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