Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] klp-convert | From | Joe Lawrence <> | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:19:00 -0400 |
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On 4/4/19 7:49 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote: > >> BTW, something I *just* noticed when putting together that toy out-of-tree >> module to test out multi-object livepatch modules is that we aren't >> considering out-of-tree symbols in Symbols.list. >> >> Perhaps we can save that for v4 or beyond, but maybe we want to re-arrange the >> klp-convert arguments to "klp-convert <input.ko> <out.ko> <Symbols.list> >> [Symbols.list ...]" where we treat everything after <out.ko> as a symbol list >> file? (This would assume we would generate a separate out-of-tree module >> Symbols.list file.) /thinking-out-loud > > I understand it could help the testing quite a bit right now, but do we > care about out-of-tree modules in general? >
Yeah, this was only something I hit because I found it easier to construct OOT modules to test and share with Joao.
I mentioned it because kpatch-build supports OOT and apparently some folks are using it:
https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/pull/923
But like I said, we can push that off for another day for now.
-- Joe
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