Supervisor and configuration update — how to do it?

[Max Lapshin]

Hi.

Our flussonic has big amount of code related to smooth configuration
update. Almost all configuration parameters can be changed on fly: it
is very important, because we handle big amounts of video traffic.  It
is very bad to leave 20 000 people without video if you want to
reconfigure single channel.


We have to fight with supervisor concepts: we do not accept
configuration in start_link/init, because it may change later.

Usually code is looking so:


init([Options]) ->
  {ok, update_options(Options, #state{})}.

handle_info({update_options, Options}, #state{} = State) ->
  {noreply, update_options(Options, State)};



Such approach doesn't work well with supervisor: if process is
restarted, it will be restarted with old Options.

My question is: is such approach antipattern for OTP?
Maybe someone else has already met with it and has some ideas about
it, like modifying supervisor.erl to change MFA?