Felix Miata said the following on 09/14/2013 11:01 AM:
On 2013-09-14 10:15 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed:
Restarting the kernel needs a reboot just as installing a new kernel as part of installing a new distribution needs a reboot. No way around that.
ROTFLMAO! <quote> This avoids the long times associated with a full reboot </quote> *WHAT* long times? Then we have <quote> the new kernel will overwrite the memory of the currently running one, while it is still executing </quote> At the very least that means tables and pointers and the state of processes. Thanks you, Felix, but when I do a risk assessment, the risk of annoying people with corrupted kernel tables causing lost or corrupted work vs the the risk of annoying them by asking them to logout for a reboot that will take maybe 2 minutes ... I'd go for the latter. People will get over that more easily than they will corrupted data. And anyway, getting back to the OP's issue: kernel updates are rarer than updates to libraries and applications. -- How long did the whining go on when KDE2 went on KDE3? The only universal constant is change. If a species can not adapt it goes extinct. That's the law of the universe, adapt or die. -- Billie Walsh, May 18 2013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org