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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/9] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jon Masters wrote:

> Ah thanks, I didn't realize you were proposing for mainline merge -
> awesome. That would really be a useful merge...how close do you think
> that is?

I don't know when it will be merged, but I can comment on the status of
our patches.

Ksplice has essentially two prerequisite changes:

- Changes to the module subsystem. Rusty Russell included versions of
those patches in a recent patch series for the module system targeted at
2.6.30.

- Support for building the Linux kernel with -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections. Linus was asked about a week ago whether he would take
the patch, but he has not responded yet.

As for the Ksplice core, Rusty Russell has started reading the code and
has requested some changes to it to assist further review. We hope to
send a new patch series with those changes made next week.

-Tim Abbott


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