From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,jgg@nvidia.com,davidgow@google.com,corbet@lwn.net,rdunlap@infradead.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:49:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251112004949.1D205C4CEFB@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:16:26 -0700
Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts. Add a reminder to do
this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/panic.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/panic.c~taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts
+++ a/kernel/panic.c
@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
/*
* TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module
* is being removed anyway.
+ *
+ * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,
+ * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and
+ * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its
+ * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of
+ * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.
*/
const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G', true),
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@infradead.org are
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