On 06/29/2009 10:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > It can only handle small patches which don't change > any data structures. So the official Fedora kernel updates will never be > suitable to be distributed through KSplice. And to date there hasn't really been any compelling reason to issue tiny patch security-updated kernels, 'cause you have to reboot anyway, right? But as the technology improves, more opportunities arise. I recall deploying some sort of hack workaround for the vmsplice exploit a while back on a whole bunch of machines (Fedora or downstreams) that were going to need a reboot scheduled up to a week in the future. This kind of technology would have been really swell to have then. Lots of reasons to not want to reboot machines - most of the arguments for supporting laptop suspend would fit. Some of them may fall into the "protecting users from themselves" category, but that's not a bad thing either. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Cell: 603.252.2606 Twitter, etc.: bill_mcgonigle Page: 603.442.1833 Email, IM, VOIP: bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
