Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:46 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. |
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > But without ksplice patches you cannot ksplice, right? That is, there is > > a non trivial patch to the kernel to make this happen afaik. If distros > > ship that, then they can add this taint flag as well. No need to burden > > mainline with any of that until it ksplice proper makes it in. > > No, Ksplice can patch completely unmodified upstream and distribution > kernels. >
Have the ksplice people considered using /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and TAINT_USER?
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