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Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 13:16:46 +0800 From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dyoung@...hat.com, corbet@....net, mcgrof@...nel.org, keescook@...omium.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cai@....pw, tytso@....edu, bunk@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, labbott@...hat.com, jeffm@...e.com, jikos@...nel.org, jeyu@...e.de, tiwai@...e.de, AnDavis@...e.com, rpalethorpe@...e.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kernel: add panic_on_taint On 05/09/20 at 09:10pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 5/9/20 7:59 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > > Read admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, but still do not get what 'G' means. > > I interpret 'G' as GPL (strictly it means that no proprietary module has > been loaded). But I don't see why TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE is the only > taint flag that has a non-blank c_false character. It could just be blank > also AFAICT. Then the 'G' would not be there to confuse us. :) Yeah, seems c_false character is not so necessary. If no 'P' set, then it means no proprietary modules loaded naturally. We may need clean up the c_false in struct taint_flag, since c_true is enough to indicate what want to check.
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