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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:48:29 -0500 (EST) Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> 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?

Thanks.