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Subject[PATCH trivial] docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt.
From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>

If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.

Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
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Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index b152e81..c10c022 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.

10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.

+ 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
+
The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
--
1.6.4.4
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)



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