On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:58:53PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > 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? -- Josh
