From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753166AbaJTUhW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:37:22 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37862 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbaJTUhS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:37:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:37:14 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Rusty Russell Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, tiwai@suse.de, tj@kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, teg@jklm.no, rmilasan@suse.com, werner@suse.com, oleg@redhat.com, hare@suse.com, bpoirier@suse.de, santosh@chelsio.com, pmladek@suse.cz, dbueso@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] taint: add TAINT_DEBUG for invasive debugging features Message-ID: <20141020203714.GO28966@wotan.suse.de> References: <1412372683-2003-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1412372683-2003-2-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <87d29tc2ut.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d29tc2ut.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:05:06PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > > > At times we may add module parameters or debugging / testing > > kernel features, when enabled though we don't really want > > to be spending time debugging them. Add a taint flag for > > this to avoid spurious bug reports. > > The recently introduced KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE flag for module > parameters does this explicitly. It uses TAINT_USER, should it use > this instead? Absolutely, dropped my taint thing in favor of this, thanks. Luis