Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Revert "livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics"

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Li Bin wrote:

> This reverts commit 83a90bb1345767f0cb96d242fd8b9db44b2b0e17.
> 
> The method that only allowing the topmost patch on the stack to be
> enabled or disabled is unreasonable. Such as the following case:
> 
> 	- do live patch1
> 	- disable patch1
> 	- do live patch2 //error
>
> Now, we will never be able to do new live patch unless disabing the
> patch1 although there is no dependencies.

Unregistering disabled patch still works and removes it from the list no 
matter the position.

So what exactly is the problem?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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