Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:42:33 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates |
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> And those patent descriptions, by the way, remind the way kexec works > ("A software module is hotpatched by loading a patch into memory and > modifying an instruction in the original module to jump to the patch"), > which was released much earlier... In essence, they patented kexec ;)
The basic patching idea is old and has been used many times, long predating kexec. e.g. it's a common way to implement incremental linkers too.
-Andi
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