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Linux kernel set to get live patching in release 3.20

Ragequit

Just because it's in the main line kernel doesn't mean that it will be turned on by default in all distro's. More than likely it will be tunable via one or many kernel options during compile. So if there are security concerns in some use cases you can just turn it off.

At any rate it sounds good to me in theory. We'll have to see how it does in practice.

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