Re: unexpected taint message

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Dec 16 2011 - 07:30:44 EST


On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 10:27 +0100, Arend van Spriel 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.

cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted

johannes

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