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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 06/15] taint: Add taint for insecure
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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:58 AM Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> wrote:
>
> When adding new feature support, patches need to be
> incrementally applied and tested with temporal parameters.
> For such testing (or root-only) purposes, the new flag
> will serve to tag the kernel taint state properly.

I'm okay with this, I guess, but I'm not at all convinced we need it.