On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:28:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * Create kernel/tainted.c and include/linux/tainted.h
> > * Move all tainted-related stuff from kernel/panic.c and
> > include/linux/kernel.h there.
> > * #include <linux/tainted.h> where needed.
> > * Switch #include <linux/kernel.h> to #include <linux/tainted.h> in
> > kernel/module.c and mm/page_alloc.c . Said includes were added during
> > add_taint() propagation and tainted stuff was in kernel.h back then.
>
> Why? What reason is there for making these changes?
Most tainted users are in arch/$ARCH/kernel/. The rest including
kernel.h don't want tainted stuff. And kernel.h is used often.
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