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| author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2010-04-03 14:36:42 -0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-19 03:37:43 -0400 |
| commit | 92946bc72f2e74c3281b7fc12be9704d455fb3ed (patch) | |
| tree | ada5ffa170890c5aea6d144033335b82067f0cf8 /Documentation | |
| parent | b2be05273a1744d175bf4b67f6665637bb9ac7a8 (diff) | |
panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')
This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI
DMAR tables.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 069fab3ea4d6..6fe9001b9263 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |||
| @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. | |||
| 260 | 260 | ||
| 261 | 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. | 261 | 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. |
| 262 | 262 | ||
| 263 | 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform | ||
| 264 | firmware (BIOS or similar). | ||
| 265 | |||
| 263 | The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel | 266 | The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel |
| 264 | debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has | 267 | debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has |
| 265 | occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is | 268 | occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is |