Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT),
> > Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> > >> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
> > >>  the last few months).
> > >>
> > >> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> > >> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?
> > >
> > >Please, please do: it's insane as is.  But I've CC'ed Keith,
> > >we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops.
> >
> > 'G' is not one of mine, I find it annoying as well.
> 
> Would anyone object to changing it so that tainted only means Proprietary 
> taint and use a different keyword for GPL tainting such as "Corrupted"?

I don't see the point.  The system is in a dubious state, tainted is
the word we've been using for that, the flags indicate what's suspect,
why play with the wording further?  But replace 'G' by ' ' certainly.

Hugh
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