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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>,
	Jeffrey B Arnold <jbarnold@ksplice.com>,
	"Waseem S. Daher" <wdaher@ksplice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded.
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090622075346.e9489feb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906220928010.26465@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > But without ksplice patches you cannot ksplice, right? That is, there is
> > a non trivial patch to the kernel to make this happen afaik. If distros
> > ship that, then they can add this taint flag as well. No need to burden
> > mainline with any of that until it ksplice proper makes it in.
> 
> No, Ksplice can patch completely unmodified upstream and distribution 
> kernels.
> 

Have the ksplice people considered using /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and
TAINT_USER?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-22 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19 19:57 [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded Tim Abbott
2009-06-19 20:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-22  7:51   ` Jon Masters
2009-06-22  8:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-22 13:32       ` Tim Abbott
2009-06-22 14:53         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-06-23 18:56           ` Tim Abbott
2009-06-22 21:25       ` Jon Masters
2009-06-22 17:46 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-06-22 19:59   ` Maxim Levitsky

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