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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make
 it more comprehensible
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:06:15 -0800
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On 12/17/18 10:24 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Here's an idea if you feel like improving this: rather than putting an
> inscrutable program inline, add a taint_status script to scripts/ that
> prints out the status in fully human-readable form, with the explanation
> for every set bit.


And some people prefer not adding tools that use python, perl, etc.

E.g., I use this shell script (named 'chktaint', which could probably
be done better):

(see attachment)

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~Randy

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