Re: [PATCH v3] kernel: add panic_on_taint

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun May 10 2020 - 00:10:50 EST


On 5/9/20 7:59 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> Read admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, but still do not get what 'G' means.

I interpret 'G' as GPL (strictly it means that no proprietary module has
been loaded). But I don't see why TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE is the only
taint flag that has a non-blank c_false character. It could just be blank
also AFAICT. Then the 'G' would not be there to confuse us. :)

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~Randy