From 92946bc72f2e74c3281b7fc12be9704d455fb3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 19:36:42 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/oops-tracing.txt') 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. 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. + 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform + firmware (BIOS or similar). + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3