On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT),
>
> Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, 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 ' ' ?
> >
> >Please, please do: it's insane as is. But I've CC'ed Keith,
> >we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops.
>
> 'G' is not one of mine, I find it annoying as well.
Would anyone object to changing it so that tainted only means Proprietary
taint and use a different keyword for GPL tainting such as "Corrupted"?
Con
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