Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:48:35 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag |
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:34:57 -0400 Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch is similar to Theordore Ts'o's TAINT_USER patch, > linux-2.6 commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366.
This seems to have gone backwards
> This patch introduces the TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag for distributions > to use.
As I said before - just mark some as 'reserved'
Giving it a specific meaning means it can't freely be used for many things by many distributions
> + printk(KERN_CRIT "UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: %s\n", msg); > + WARN_TAINT(1, TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED, > + "Your hardware is unsupported. Please do not report " > + "bugs, panics, oopses, etc., on this hardware.\n");
And as already pointed out it's not unsupported hardware even in the case you described
NAK
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