Commit 0e6779bb authored by Nick Bowler's avatar Nick Bowler Committed by Jiri Kosina
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docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt 



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

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent b71a8eb0

Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

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@@ -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

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