linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/2] Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

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Message-Id: <20190108194007.29439-1-linux@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Tue,  8 Jan 2019 20:40:05 +0100
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

Hi! This is the second version of my patch to make
admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst more comprehensible. It got triggered while
working on an update for reporting-bugs.rst, as improving the documentation
around reporting bugs and regressions was one of the main things that a lot of
people wanted to see while regression tracking was discussed in the kernel and
maintainer summit 2017 in Prague.

This is the second version of the patch, which became a patch set, as it now
contains a script Randy (thx) provided during the discussion of the first
version. 

Please review and consider applying.

Ciao, Thorsten

Changes since v1 [1]:
- add tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
- take care of Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt as well
- renumber existing description to avoid and off-by-one
- add verbose description for three more taints bits
- fix a lots of small issues raised during review

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181217152043.9989-1-linux@leemhuis.info/

Thorsten Leemhuis (2):
  tools: create tools/debugging/ and add a script decoding
    /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
  docs: Revamp tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

 Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 159 +++++++++++---
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt               |  50 ++---
 tools/Makefile                                |  14 +-
 tools/debugging/Makefile                      |  16 ++
 tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint               | 202 ++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/debugging/Makefile
 create mode 100755 tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint

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