Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

From: Jeff Arnold
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 15:06:36 EST


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hmmm, so what are its limits? How much manual work is involved?

The Ksplice technical paper (http://www.ksplice.com/paper) describes in
detail how Ksplice works--including what it can do automatically and what
requires assistance from a programmer or other tools.

> Lets say I want 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31-rc1... that's just source patch, right?

For now, we're using Ksplice to apply bug-fix patches, such as from the
stable tree (2.6.29 -> 2.6.29.5, not 2.6.30 -> 2.6.31).

- Jeff
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