warn_reboot kernel install option

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:00 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> The reporter wishes this variable to have a more direct meaning, of
> preventing all reboot warnings when set.  Their use case is for
> people using ksplice to install fixes from the newer kernel without
> rebooting, and thus are never interested in rebooting.
> 
> Cirtainly I can see that there is a use case, for suppressing any
> notificiation.  The real question is whether we can reuse this existing
> variable to do this or would need a new one.  It should be noted that
> this appears to have never been implemented and therefore changing its
> meaning would be low risk.
> 
Isn't the original meaning of this flag obsoleted by our careful ABI
tracking?  The whole reason to track the ABI so carefully is that it's
perfectly ok to replace the running kernel

Scott
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