linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Remove not longer valid limitations from the documentation

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1805241538430.27054@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 15:38:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Remove not longer valid limitations from the
 documentation

On Wed, 23 May 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Semantic changes are possible since the commit d83a7cb375eec21f04
> ("livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model").
> 
> Also data structures can be patched since the commit 439e7271dc2b63de37
> ("livepatch: introduce shadow variable API").
> 
> It is a high time we removed these limitations from the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> ---
> I have found this when working on v12 of the atomic replace. It looks
> like a no-brainer and does not conflict with the patchset, so ... ;-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs