[PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.

[PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.

[Nick Bowler]

From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>

If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.

Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
---
 Documentation/oops-tracing.txt |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index b152e81..c10c022 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
 
  10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
 
+ 11: 'C' if a staging driver 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
-- 
1.6.4.4

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.

[Randy Dunlap]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:

> From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
> 
> If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/oops-tracing.txt |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> index b152e81..c10c022 100644
> --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
>  
>   10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
>  
> + 11: 'C' if a staging driver 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
> -- 


---
~Randy

Re: [PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:
> 
> > From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
> > 
> > If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Applied, thanks guys.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.