Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] livepatch: Add support for apply|revert action replacement hooks

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On August 27, 2019 4:46:17 AM EDT, Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>By default, in the quiescing zone, a hotpatch payload is applied with
>apply_payload() and reverted with revert_payload() functions. Both of
>the functions receive the payload struct pointer as a parameter. The
>functions are also a place where standard 'load' and 'unload' module
>hooks are executed.
>
>To increase hotpatching system's agility and provide more flexiable
>long-term hotpatch solution, allow to overwrite the default apply
>and revert action functions with hook-like supplied alternatives.
>The alternative functions are optional and the default functions are
>used by default.

Is there sense in having the old ones anymore? We could just remove them 
altogether and just use the new ones instead from the start?


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