On 15/09/2023 2:01 am, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The whole bit with alternatives and pvops being separate is a major > maintainability problem, and honestly it never made any sense in the > first place. Never have two mechanisms to do one job; it makes it > harder to grok their interactions. This bit is easy. Juergen has already done the work to delete one of these two patching mechanisms and replace it with the other. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a32e211f-4add-4fb2-9e5a-480ae9b9bbf2@xxxxxxxx/ Unfortunately, it's only collecting pings and tumbleweeds. ~Andrew