Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:33:12 +0100

smurf@noris.de said:
> - load a module into the old kernel which can read a lot of internal data
> structures from the current kernel into a buffer, and all driver setup,
> and and and ...
> - load the new kernel, with a module which imports the data from the buffer,
> someplace into memory

As internal data structures change between kernels, this marshalling code
would need to be written each time to go from the old structures to the new.

That's a lot of work, even when the structures are vaguely related to each
other, and not part of a complete subsystem rewrite.

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