From 2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:12:28 +0200 Subject: module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very little review. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Reviewed-by: Dave Jones Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (patched oops-tracing.txt) --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 6fe9001b926..13032c0140d 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform firmware (BIOS or similar). + 13: 'O' if an externally-built ("out-of-tree") module 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258