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Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots

Posted Apr 29, 2008 21:11 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots by aleXXX
Parent article: Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots

Many promising technologies started as weird hacks.

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Posted Apr 30, 2008 2:44 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

But many more weird hacks started as weird hacks.

Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots

Posted Apr 30, 2008 12:47 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

And remain as weird hacks, causing trouble and maintenance nightmares.

Which in fact IS a big issue.