Re: [PATCH] Revert "driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers"

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>]

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Hello Danilo,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 09:02:35PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Thu Oct 29, 2026 at 6:39 PM CET, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > It's not part of commit fcbfaffee51a452cc8efcbaa3b88ec4595678424, but
> > conceptually we need 
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> > index 3d312bc17942..fcb8b9734548 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ a particular type of taint. It's best to leave that to the aforementioned
> >  script, but if you need something quick you can use this shell command to check
> >  which bits are set::
> >  
> > -	$ for i in $(seq 0 20); do echo $i $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>$i&1));done
> > +	$ for i in $(seq 0 19); do echo $i $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>$i&1));done
> >  
> >  Table for decoding tainted state
> >  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > in this change which was fixed in commit f1850e443b0e ("docs:
> > admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing
> > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted"), but that commit shouldn't be reverted as it
> > contains a simplification that we should keep.
> 
> Fixed it up, thanks!

Thanks. Looking at a287f97d4256b5f5527f5b5a54f8ada55e1482c7:

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>

(just in case you're still willing to rewrite the commit for adding
that).

Best regards
Uwe

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