Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 May 2020 13:16:46 +0800 | From | Baoquan He <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] kernel: add panic_on_taint |
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On 05/09/20 at 09:10pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 5/9/20 7:59 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > > Read admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, but still do not get what 'G' means. > > I interpret 'G' as GPL (strictly it means that no proprietary module has > been loaded). But I don't see why TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE is the only > taint flag that has a non-blank c_false character. It could just be blank > also AFAICT. Then the 'G' would not be there to confuse us. :)
Yeah, seems c_false character is not so necessary. If no 'P' set, then it means no proprietary modules loaded naturally. We may need clean up the c_false in struct taint_flag, since c_true is enough to indicate what want to check.
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