> > I agree here. Practically we use only cumulative replacement patches at > > SUSE. So with that in mind I don't care about the stacking much. But, it > > may make sense for someone else. Evgenii mentioned they used it for > > hotfixes. Therefore I'm reluctant to remove it completely. > > Well, it was convenient in some cases to provide a hot fix for a given bug > on top of our official cumulative patch. So far, such fixes were only used > on a few of the customers' machines (where they were needed ASAP). It just > made it easier to see where is the common set of fixes and where is the > customer-specific addition. > > I think, we can use cumulative patches in such cases too without much > additional effort. For example, we can encode the distinction (base set of > fixes + addition) in the module name or somewhere else. > > So, I think, it is fine for us, if stacking support is removed. Especially > if that makes the implementation of livepatch less complex and more > reliable. Just to clarify, I think we are just proposing the removal of the enforcement of the stacking order. We will still allow multiple non-replace patches to be applied. We just won't enforce which patches can be disabled/removed at any given time. So I think your old way of doing things (individual unrelated patches on top of a cumulative patch) would still work. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
