Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 08:01:01 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add user taint flag |
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:39:16AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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?
I wouldn't. It's their responsibility to handle things like this when merging to new kernel versions. They can just change the character, like they handle new sysrq values.
thanks,
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