On Thursday 24 November 2005 04:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before? On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
> > > >
> > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > > >
> > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked
> > > in.
> >
> > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary
> > modules.
>
> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
> the last few months).
>
> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?
I don't understand the reasons for making the tainted string all the same
length anyway. Why not just remove all the extra spaces?
Unless you know what you're looking for, I can assure you that:
Tainted: G B SOMEOTHERTEXT
Is not intuitively readable (which text does B belong to?).
Tainted: B SOMEOTHERTEXT
Is better, but still not very good. Why not drop the spaces?
3rd party parsing purposes?
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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