Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757196AbZFVRso (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753550AbZFVRsh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:37 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56374 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753233AbZFVRsh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:46:55 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert To: Tim Abbott Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Arjan van de Ven , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , Anders Kaseorg , Jeffrey B Arnold Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. Message-ID: <20090622134655.60b7c44a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 21 On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:57:21 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott wrote: > Distributions and kerneloops.org have requested that the Ksplice > rebootless update system taint the kernel the first time that a > Ksplice update is installed, in order to assist with bug triage. > > Ksplice uses a new taint flag, TAINT_KSPLICE, displayed as 'K', for > this purpose. > > We would like to confirm that this use of taint meets with the > community's approval and get this taint flag registered in mainline. > How about a more generic taint flag that just says some user program has patched the running kernel? -- 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/