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From:   Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] livepatch: new API to track system state changes
References: <20190611135627.15556-1-pmladek@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:27:34 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20190611135627.15556-1-pmladek@suse.com> (Petr Mladek's message
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Hi Petr,

> this is another piece in the puzzle that helps to maintain more
> livepatches.
>
> Especially pre/post (un)patch callbacks might change a system state.
> Any newly installed livepatch has to somehow deal with system state
> modifications done be already installed livepatches.
>
> This patchset provides, hopefully, a simple and generic API that
> helps to keep and pass information between the livepatches.
> It is also usable to prevent loading incompatible livepatches.

I like it a lot, many thanks for doing this!

Minor remarks/questions will follow inline.

Nicolai