[PATCH] liveupdate: document current compatibility status
luca.boccassi at gmail.com
luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Wed May 27 08:37:12 PDT 2026
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
We currently do not guarantee compatibility due to ongoing
development, so mention this explicitly in the user-facing
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst
index f6efc32fb40b..cdd74627ab75 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ ioctl uAPI
===========
.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
+Note on Compatibility
+=====================
+
+Note that the Live Update feature is still under development and subject to
+change, so compatibility is not guaranteed when kexec rebooting between
+different kernel versions. This is expected to change and stabilize in a future
+version.
+
Userspace Integration
=====================
--
2.47.3
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