Re: [PATCH] Separate tainted code from panic code

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> > 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.

The tainted definitions don't change very often, they also have no config 
dependencies, so the benefit of separating this is very low.

bye, Roman
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