Re: [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates

[Posted December 17, 2008 by corbet]

From:		Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		Tim Abbott <tabbott-AT-MIT.EDU>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates
Date:		Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:07:40 -0800
Message-ID:		<20081216190740.9db323ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:		Jeff Arnold <jbarnold-AT-MIT.EDU>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux-AT-googlemail.com>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk-AT-MIT.EDU>, Waseem Daher <wdaher-AT-MIT.EDU>, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth-AT-suse.de>, Ben Collins <bcollins-AT-ubuntu.com>, Dave Jones <davej-AT-codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:48:29 -0500 (EST) Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jeff Arnold wrote:
> 
> > We're interested in having Ksplice included in -mm.  If you could consider
> > this code for inclusion (or let us know what you'd like us to do next),
> > we'd appreciate it.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Since it's been a couple of weeks, I thought that I would ask whether you 
> know yet how you'd like to handle this patch series.  Thanks,
> 

It's quite a lot of tricky code, and fairly high maintenance, I expect.

I'd have _thought_ that distros and their high-end customers would be
interested in it, but I haven't noticed anything from them.  Not that
this means much - our processes for gathering this sort of information
are rudimentary at best.  Has your team been in contact with distros?
Are Suse shipping it, or planning to?

(cc's a few more distro people)

Guys, could you please wander over to the appropriate cube and
administer a prod?

Thanks.