Re: [PATCH] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Jun 19 2010 - 04:41:00 EST


Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
nt\n");
> + if (flag == TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED)
> + printk(KERN_CRIT "WARNING: This system's hardware is "
> + "unsupported.\n");

The problem with such a message in mainline is that it would
imply that other hardware is actually 'supported'

Which is not really true in most cases.

-Andi

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