linux-kernel - Re: livepatching tree for linux-next

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Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2014 01:46:07 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: livepatching tree for linux-next

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 08:52:02PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> a substantial amount of work has been invested into abstracing "Live 
> Patching" core functionality out of the already existing implementations, 
> so that further improvements can be built on top of it in incremental 
> steps.
> 
> The core functionality (which is self-contained) now works and has been 
> Reviewed/Acked by both interested parties (i.e. people working on kPatch 
> and kGraft) and agreed to be a common ground on which further development 
> will happen.
> 
> We plan to send a pull request for 3.20, therefore I'd like to ask you to 
> include 'for-next' branch of

This is still missing the actual patch generators, which should be
merged together with the code, otherwise we'll get a mess with forever
out of tree tools like systemtap again.
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