Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.9] livepatch: Declare live patching as a supported feature

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.9] livepatch: Declare live patching as a 
supported feature"):
> * For Xen 4.9 we can declare live patching supported, without spinning
> another RC to update the in-tree documentation: in other words, we would
> apply the documentation/policy changes + to the 4.9 tree sometimes after
> this discussion has been concluded. In effect this means that
> docs/features/livepatching.pandoc (or similar) and associated changes to
> KCONFIG options would not show up until Xen 4.9.1 is spun,

I think that the effective version of these documents is not the one
in the most recent release, but the one in (one of the) git branches.
In this case, I think xenbits:xen.git#stable-4.9.

(This is an essential way to look at it because we have releases which
are still in security support, and might need updates to their support
status, but which are out of functional support and do not get
releases of updates.)

> * There was a proposal to declare live patching supported for older
> releases (aka "back port" docs/features/livepatching.pandoc), but Royger
> pointed out that the toolstack in question needs to support buildid. If
> so, we should include back-porting requests and d

("and do it then" or something?)  Yes.

Ian.

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