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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