Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag inoops-tracing.txt.

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 13:40:36 EST


On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:

> From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> index b152e81..c10c022 100644
> --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
>
> 10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
>
> + 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
> +
> The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
> debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
> occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
> --


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~Randy
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