On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:19:12PM -0500, Ben Kaduk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Do You think for this project: http://www.ksplice.com/ ? > > > > On 1/1/09, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_iet.unipi.it> wrote: > >> I mentioned this utility a couple of months ago, and it's now working > >> so i would like to receive feedback on whether this is good to have > >> as part of the system, or just keep it as a port (which is what > >> i plan to do by default). > >> > >> In a nutshell, the kmodpatch utility can print or alter the content > >> of device/quirk tables in kernel modules (I think Linux has some > >> similar tool, though i don't remember the name -- or perhaps it is > >> a feature of insmod ?). > >> > > > Ksplice is not yet in the linux kernel tree, so it's probably not > what Luigi was referring to. However, it is a pretty impressive correct, i think there is some feature (in insmod or whatever the utility to load a module is) to configure the module so it uses certain variables (perhaps including recognising a given USB vendor-id pair?) cheers luigiReceived on Fri Jan 02 2009 - 21:12:28 UTC
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