Debugging Kernel Oops documentation
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Wed Mar 2 18:00:04 UTC 2011
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:50:54AM -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> Looking at the debugging kernel Oops documentation[1] I decided to cross
> reference the information on tainted kernels with all the Oops reports
> in Launchpad. Lo and behold I came across some undocumented tainted
> values. So what do the following characters represent?
>
> 1) C
>
> 2) W
>
> 3) I
* 'W' - Taint on warning.
* 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.
* 'I' - Working around severe firmware bug.
>
> For bonus points where can people look that up?
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelOops
kernel/panic.c
> Thanks!
Thank you :)
-apw
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