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

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2004 14:12 schrieb Lei Ming:
> 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?

kernel/panic.c:

/**
 *	print_tainted - return a string to represent the kernel taint state.
 *
 *  'P' - Proprietary module has been loaded.
 *  'F' - Module has been forcibly loaded.
 *  'S' - SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
 *  'R' - User forced a module unload.
 *  'M' - Machine had a machine check experience.
 *  'B' - System has hit bad_page.
 *
 *	The string is overwritten by the next call to print_taint().
 */

	HTH
		Oliver
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