From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752308AbYLQMG5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:06:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753163AbYLQMGf (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:06:35 -0500 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:50700 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbYLQMGe (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:06:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates From: Ben Collins Reply-To: Ben Collins To: Andrew Morton Cc: Tim Abbott , Jeff Arnold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Denys Vlasenko , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Nikanth Karthikesan , Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20081216190740.9db323ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1228521840-3886-1-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu> <20081216190740.9db323ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Canonical Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:06:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1229515567.9540.20.camel@capable> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:48:29 -0500 (EST) Tim Abbott wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jeff Arnold wrote: > > > > > We're interested in having Ksplice included in -mm. If you could consider > > > this code for inclusion (or let us know what you'd like us to do next), > > > we'd appreciate it. > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Since it's been a couple of weeks, I thought that I would ask whether you > > know yet how you'd like to handle this patch series. Thanks, > > > > It's quite a lot of tricky code, and fairly high maintenance, I expect. > > I'd have _thought_ that distros and their high-end customers would be > interested in it, but I haven't noticed anything from them. Not that > this means much - our processes for gathering this sort of information > are rudimentary at best. Has your team been in contact with distros? > Are Suse shipping it, or planning to? > > (cc's a few more distro people) > > Guys, could you please wander over to the appropriate cube and > administer a prod? We aren't using it and I haven't heard any requests for it. Might check it out though.