Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:40:10 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Con Kolivas <con@kolivas.org>, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
 > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote:
 > > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
 > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before?  On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
 > > >
 > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
 > > >
 > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
 > >
 > >                        ^^^^^^^^^^
 > >
 > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
 > 
 > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary modules.


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 ' ' ?

		Dave

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