linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20181219172127.o753af7pkrsttcgl@treble>
Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:21:27 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com,
        michal.lkml@...kovi.net, jeyu@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is
 enabled

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:58:53PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > This option only makes sense for source-based patch generation, so isn't 
> > it a bit premature to make this change without proper source-based patch 
> > tooling?
> 
> The reality is though that before the full-fledged patch tooling exists, 
> people are actually already writing livepatches by hand, so this option is 
> useful for them.

Fair enough.

Though, upstream, almost everybody seems to use kpatch-build, for which
this patch doesn't help.  And people will continue to do so until we
have decent source-based tooling.  Will the klp-convert patches be
revived soon?

-- 
Josh