Re: Print taint info in more places.

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On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:49 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> We've found in the past that various bug reports have had minimal
> information, just a few printk's rather than a complete oops,
> and it's taken several round-trips with the bug reporter before
> we've discovered they had some proprietary module loaded.
> 
> The patches below adds dumping of the tainted state to some
> extra parts of the kernel that report 'bad things' happening.
> These patches have been in the Fedora kernel for some time now,
> and have proved useful often.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>

In my opinion, this is a very good idea :-)

Jon.


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