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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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@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = {
{ TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' },
{ TAINT_CRAP, 'C', ' ' },
{ TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' ' },
{ TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 'O', ' ' },
};
/**
@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = {
* 'W' - Taint on warning.
* 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.
* 'I' - Working around severe firmware bug.
* 'O' - Out-of-tree module has been loaded.
*
* The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted().
*/