Re: Hot-patching

Jesper Juhl
2005-09-20T22:18:59Z

On 9/21/05, John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Oftentimes distributions spin on a stable kernel, but occasionally
> update it for security bugs. This then demands a reboot, or you sit on
> a buggy kernel for however long.
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This has been discussed time and time again on this list and elsewhere
over the years. The most recent discussion I recall is the "[PATCH
x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7" thread which drew over 50
comments and got into a lot of corners - I'd suggest you go read it in
the archives.
Spend a little time searching and you'll find several other threads
about this in lkml archives.

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