From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Print taint info in more places.
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:09:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197634200.29507.98.camel@perihelion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213224927.GA18639@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:49 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> We've found in the past that various bug reports have had minimal
> information, just a few printk's rather than a complete oops,
> and it's taken several round-trips with the bug reporter before
> we've discovered they had some proprietary module loaded.
>
> The patches below adds dumping of the tainted state to some
> extra parts of the kernel that report 'bad things' happening.
> These patches have been in the Fedora kernel for some time now,
> and have proved useful often.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
In my opinion, this is a very good idea :-)
Jon.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 22:49 Print taint info in more places Dave Jones
2007-12-13 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-13 23:43 ` Mauricio Mauad Menegaz Filho
2007-12-13 23:52 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 0:12 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 0:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-14 0:16 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 1:30 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 7:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-14 7:55 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 15:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-14 16:56 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-14 12:09 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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