Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

Alex Riesen
2011-10-12T14:18:31Z

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 16:08, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:57, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why can't the automatic bug filing tools have a user space list of
>>> offending modules that it can use to opt out of automatically filing
>>> kernel bugs? ...
>>
>> Maybe because an oops is not always conveniently accompanied by enough
>> information
>> to opt-out.
>>
>
> In which case the reporting of the OOPS is useless anyways
> irrespective of whether or not vboxdrv was loaded. So the tool  can

Of course not. There is a lot of insight in the instruction dump,
which may be still present, or in stack trace.