Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:10:47 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled |
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > This option only makes sense for source-based patch generation, so isn't > > > it a bit premature to make this change without proper source-based patch > > > tooling? > > > > The reality is though that before the full-fledged patch tooling exists, > > people are actually already writing livepatches by hand, so this option is > > useful for them. > > Fair enough. > > Though, upstream, almost everybody seems to use kpatch-build, for which > this patch doesn't help. And people will continue to do so until we > have decent source-based tooling. Will the klp-convert patches be > revived soon?
Let me add Joao, who's working on that.
Joao, I think you had something basically ready for upstream exposure, right?
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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