Re: What does "Tainted: P" or "Tainted: GF" mean?

From: Sebastian
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 08:35:26 EST


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:12:51 +0800
Lei Ming <LeiMing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry for asking this silly question:
>
> When I use lsmod to list all the modules, it displays "Tainted: P",
> and on my friend's machine it's "Tainted: GF".
>
> I know what "Tainted" mean, but what does "P" or "GF" mean? If there
> are others than these two, where can I find a list?
>
> Thanks.
>

Hi,

you can find informations about 'tainted kernels' at the end of
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt found in any kernel-source.

Sebastian
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