From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753016AbYKXLHW (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:07:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752090AbYKXLGe (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:06:34 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:53260 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751643AbYKXLGa (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:06:30 -0500 From: Nikanth Karthikesan Organization: suse.de To: Jeff Arnold Subject: Re: [RFC] kreplace: Rebootless kernel updates Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:37:38 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.51 (KDE/4.0.4; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, mhiramat@redhat.com, contact@ksplice.com, jbarnold@ksplice.com, tabbott@ksplice.com, wdaher@ksplice.com, andersk@ksplice.com References: <200811211720.26394.knikanth@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200811241637.39277.knikanth@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 22 November 2008 09:16:59 Jeff Arnold wrote: > Hello, > > > [kreplace] is currently a x86_64 only _hack_ > > The point of Ksplice is to be a hot update system that isn't a hack. > Ksplice is quite far along at this point; it implements many safety and > automation features that kreplace doesn't address. I agree. > Is there something in particular that discouraged you from using Ksplice? > It is not mainline yet. And just the curiosity of doing it some other way with minimal code. Thanks Nikanth Karthikesan