2009-10-06 14:41:13

by Nick Bowler

Subject: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.

From: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>

If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.

Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
---
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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1.6.4.4

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

2009-10-06 17:39:55

by Randy Dunlap

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

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

> From: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
>
> If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

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
> --


---
~Randy

2009-10-06 17:53:54

by Jiri Kosina

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

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:
>
> > From: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
> >
> > If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks guys.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.