On 06/20/2014 06:30 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 06/20/2014 12:15 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> hi >> >> since we now have a GA kernel and a zero day update kernel, does someone >> want to have a go at creating the scripts / automation needed to deliver >> kpatch content ? >> >> - KB >> > > Sat through a basic presentation on this, and on the surface it seems > reasonably easy to implement at the local level. Distro wide, it will > become an exercise in deployment of patches, as not all things can be > patched. There's also a reasonably insignificant (or so I'm told) > performance penalty that will grow as more things are added to the > kpatch list without a reboot. something really cool is that the kpatch process itself works quite nicely with git, we could potentially deliver a tool that allows people to self-implement, rather than needing to ship kpatch payload ( otherwise, were potentially looking at a yum plugin of sorts and a rpm based wrapper ) does that sound like something we could target ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc