Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:27:31 -0500 (EST) | From | Tim Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/9] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols |
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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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