Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754840Ab0FVPoc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:44:32 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:49820 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754185Ab0FVPoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:44:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:48:35 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Don Zickus Cc: Andrew Morton , Prarit Bhargava , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag Message-ID: <20100622164835.4ddb9432@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100622153457.GA5381@redhat.com> References: <20100617134654.22523.39845.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> <20100617091322.b7d21473.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4C1A7D61.8010900@redhat.com> <20100621122145.76ebd7ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100621194559.GI3217@redhat.com> <20100621130008.d3dc01a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100622153457.GA5381@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 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: 1043 Lines: 31 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:34:57 -0400 Don Zickus wrote: > This patch is similar to Theordore Ts'o's TAINT_USER patch, > linux-2.6 commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366. This seems to have gone backwards > This patch introduces the TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag for distributions > to use. As I said before - just mark some as 'reserved' Giving it a specific meaning means it can't freely be used for many things by many distributions > + printk(KERN_CRIT "UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: %s\n", msg); > + WARN_TAINT(1, TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED, > + "Your hardware is unsupported. Please do not report " > + "bugs, panics, oopses, etc., on this hardware.\n"); And as already pointed out it's not unsupported hardware even in the case you described NAK -- 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/