On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 06:58:29AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This kind of stuff is just sick. Better let them play with their research > OS for this kind of thing :)
sick, research, what's the difference? :-) > In practice any non-trivial bug fix requires > changes to global data structures so reloading a module doesn't make > sense. ... unless you have a mechanism (which k42 does) to interpose between data structures and the users of said structures, which you can use to decide when to repace them. > And for module-specific problems you should be able to hack around using > kprobes if you really need (but then again for a mission critical system > you should have proper active-active failover clustering anyway) I'm not advocating we merge this - nor have I seen the implementation for Linux yet - no need to preemptively scorch it from orbit :-) Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
