Re: unexpected taint message

From: Daniel Baluta
Date: Fri Dec 16 2011 - 04:29:52 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To whoever may know,
>
> Upon loading our driver module I get the following message:
>
> kernel: [  344.805106] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>
> What exactly are the criteria for tainting? Our driver locking strategy
> is something we want to refactor and having lock debugging during that
> transition may be a life safer.

Is your driver GPL licensed?

thanks,
Daniel.
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