Konstantin Svist wrote: > Well, actually... http://www.ksplice.com/ > They make special patches for kernel which can be applied to a running > kernel. > Not sure this one is open source, but there probably will be one soon :) Well, it is and it's even packaged in Fedora, but they don't produce patches for Fedora kernels and it's nontrivial to create them (they have some automated tools which work on the source code patches, but you need to feed them the patches by hand as the Fedora updates don't contain them in an appropriate format and those tools don't handle data structure changes, which makes them unusable for Fedora's kernel updates; I've been told that they now have infrastructure to handle data structure changes, but it requires writing patch scripts by hand and they aren't providing that service for Fedora). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
