[PATCH] liveupdate: document liveupdate=on

Luca Boccassi luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Tue May 19 05:58:53 PDT 2026


On Tue, 19 May 2026 at 13:57, Pratyush Yadav <pratyush at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: "Pratyush Yadav (Google)" <pratyush at kernel.org>
>
> While the liveupdate= parameter is documented in kernel-parameters.txt,
> it is not listed in LUO's user facing documentation. This can make it
> hard for users to figure out how to enable the subsystem, since enabling
> just the config isn't enough.
>
> Note the need for the kernel parameter in LUO core documentation, which
> gets exported to Documentation/core-api/liveupdate.rst.
>
> Suggested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush at kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     I think we should take this patch through the liveupdate/fixes branch.
>
>  kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>



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