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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:29:57 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in
 oops-tracing.txt.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:

> From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
> 
> If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.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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