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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot-patching
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:18:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490509201518248b66d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43308815.1000200@comcast.net>

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.
> 

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.

-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-20 22:07 Hot-patching John Richard Moser
2005-09-20 22:18 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-09-20 22:21 ` Hot-patching Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-20 22:50   ` Hot-patching John Richard Moser
2005-09-20 22:47 ` Hot-patching Jesper Juhl
2005-09-20 22:57   ` Hot-patching John Richard Moser
2005-09-20 23:07     ` Hot-patching Jesper Juhl

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