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authorNick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>2009-10-06 10:12:22 -0400
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2009-11-09 09:40:56 +0100
commit0e6779bbcb78b434efdc84fff1809e342684d6b3 (patch)
treee951e356f87b007203f5101e641fcc4d2b44d873
parentb71a8eb0fa64ec6d00175f479e3ef851703568af (diff)
docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt
If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be. Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index b152e81da59..c10c022b911 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