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Message-ID: <20091006141222.GA18579@emergent.ellipticsemi.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400
From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in
oops-tracing.txt.
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>
---
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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