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Message-ID: <20090622134655.60b7c44a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:46:55 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>, Jeffrey B Arnold <jbarnold@...lice.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:57:21 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com> wrote: > Distributions and kerneloops.org have requested that the Ksplice > rebootless update system taint the kernel the first time that a > Ksplice update is installed, in order to assist with bug triage. > > Ksplice uses a new taint flag, TAINT_KSPLICE, displayed as 'K', for > this purpose. > > We would like to confirm that this use of taint meets with the > community's approval and get this taint flag registered in mainline. > How about a more generic taint flag that just says some user program has patched the running kernel? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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