Re: [PATCH] Add user taint flag

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:45:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:04:32PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/panic.c	2006-04-28 21:16:55.000000000 -0400
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/panic.c	2006-05-21 19:00:15.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
> >   *  'R' - User forced a module unload.
> >   *  'M' - Machine had a machine check experience.
> >   *  'B' - System has hit bad_page.
> > + *  'U' - Userspace-defined naughtiness.
> 
> Just a note, some other distros already use the 'U' flag in taint
> messages to show an "unsupported" module has been loaded.  I know it's
> out-of-the-tree and will never go into mainline, just FYI if you happen
> to see some 'U' flags in the wild today...
> 
> Oh, and I like this feature, makes sense to me to have this.

Should we worry about collisions with what distributions are using?
That could cause confusion in the future....

						- Ted
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