Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

From: Alex Riesen
Date: Wed Oct 12 2011 - 10:18:31 EST


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 16:08, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:57, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Why can't the automatic bug filing tools have a user space list of
>>> offending modules that it can use to opt out of automatically filing
>>> kernel bugs? ...
>>
>> Maybe because an oops is not always conveniently accompanied by enough
>> information
>> to opt-out.
>>
>
> In which case the reporting of the OOPS is useless anyways
> irrespective of whether or not vboxdrv was loaded. So the tool Âcan

Of course not. There is a lot of insight in the instruction dump,
which may be still present, or in stack trace.
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