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| author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2011-10-24 15:12:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-11-07 07:54:42 +1030 |
| commit | 2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69 (patch) | |
| tree | 48e11288635dcfc8cdb342f3ba00fa2a2a650aa8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1cd0d6c3021c8d76641b37203f504634b87fbabc (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69.tar.gz lwn-2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69.zip | |
module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 6fe9001b9263..13032c0140d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform firmware (BIOS or similar). + 13: 'O' if an externally-built ("out-of-tree") module 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 |