Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262382AbUKKVLC (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262383AbUKKVLC (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:02 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:22668 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262382AbUKKVLA (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:10:50 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] WTF is VLI? Message-ID: <20041111211050.GC32275@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 586 Lines: 14 On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > What is this "VLI" that 2.6.9 started putting after the taint string > in i386 oopses? Vick Library Index? Vineyard Leadership Institute? "Variable length instructions". I think newer ksymoops looks for this tag and does something magical when doing disassembly. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/