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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT), > > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > >> > > >> 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"? I don't see the point. The system is in a dubious state, tainted is the word we've been using for that, the flags indicate what's suspect, why play with the wording further? But replace 'G' by ' ' certainly. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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