* [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.
@ 2009-10-06 14:12 Nick Bowler
2009-10-06 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
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From: Nick Bowler @ 2009-10-06 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
---
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index b152e81..c10c022 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
+ 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
+
The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
--
1.6.4.4
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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* Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.
2009-10-06 14:12 [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt Nick Bowler
@ 2009-10-06 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-06 17:53 ` Jiri Kosina
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2009-10-06 17:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nick Bowler; +Cc: linux-kernel, trivial
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:
> From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
>
> If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Thanks.
> ---
> Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> index b152e81..c10c022 100644
> --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
>
> 10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
>
> + 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
> +
> The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
> debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
> occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
> --
---
~Randy
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* Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.
2009-10-06 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
@ 2009-10-06 17:53 ` Jiri Kosina
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From: Jiri Kosina @ 2009-10-06 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Randy Dunlap; +Cc: Nick Bowler, linux-kernel
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:
>
> > From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
> >
> > If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Applied, thanks guys.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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