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module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

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Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
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Ben Hutchings 2011-10-24 15:12:28 +02:00 • committed by Rusty Russell
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@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform
firmware (BIOS or similar).
13: 'O' if an externally-built ("out-of-tree") module has been loaded.
The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is