Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/28/2016 09:45 PM, James Knott wrote:
My openSUSE systems just received a kernel update. Normally that requires a reboot, but not this time. Why not? I'm running openSUSE 13.1.
Its not "13.1" that matters AFAIK.
When the 4.x series was released part of its bragging DNA was that it could patch the kernel with no need for a reboot.
If you're running the 3.x series kernel distributed with 13.1 then of course you need a reboot :-)
If you're running a 4.x series kernel and it gets updates then this is a perfectly valid question.
HOWEVER .. Yes, as regular readers will recall, I'm running the 4.5 kernel from the Kernel_Stable repository and so far all the updates have required a reboot.
When I attend Suse Days, the bragging about the product still mentions not shutdown/reboot as a feature of the Linux kernel.
Is this something we can only expect with LEAP? Why not the other series 4. kernel users? Is it something that the Suse build has decided not to partake of, that all kernel updates MUST require a reboot?
Sofar it seems to be SLES(12) only: http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-reboot-patching-comes-to-linux-4-0/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-gets-live-patching/
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