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On Fri, 8 May 2026 17:47:04 -0400 Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:

> >> 19 files changed, 1451 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >wowzers.  I'm looking at samples/livepatch/livepatch-sample.c wondering
> >"why"?
> 
> Yup, a bit chunky, but over half of it is documentation and testing, and the
> actual functional code is largely the securityfs interface.

So we can't use livepatch here?