Re: [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates

Ben Collins
2008-12-17T12:06:57Z

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

We aren't using it and I haven't heard any requests for it. Might check
it out though.