Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:11:15 +1100 |
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On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that > are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the > kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag. To allow for > this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint > flag as argument. .. > The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be > reviewed by architecture maintainers.
I'm not one of them, but this at least builds on powerpc FWIW.
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