Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933098AbYAYImr (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:42:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764440AbYAYIDy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:03:54 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:41356 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761068AbYAYIDx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:03:53 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell , Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Support for Proprierary Modules In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:56:09 +0100." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1201029235.18144.62.camel@perihelion> <20080123031005.GA16766@Krystal> <1201061860.25284.28.camel@perihelion> <20080123131442.GA6562@redhat.com> <20080123144811.GA12296@Krystal> <27267.1201152358@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1201155569.25284.88.camel@perihelion> <20080124124703.GB32559@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1201248183_2846P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:03:03 -0500 Message-ID: <15663.1201248183@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 31 --==_Exmh_1201248183_2846P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:56:09 +0100, Jan Engelhardt said: > So what is needed is an Oops with an explaining message > if (kernel_tainted) "blame that proprietary module first", > and make sure the user sees that oops even if in X. The person who solves the "even if in X" problem will probably be nominated for sainthood by the Linux community. "It just hung with flashing LED's" is just too common an event.... --==_Exmh_1201248183_2846P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHmZe3cC3lWbTT17ARApK2AKDOKz5S19PFIhhQDpUNXkeLKPlRWACbBtTI K8f08QWNf0DnlJHBNwfVXsw= =Kw3l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1201248183_2846P-- -- 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/