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authorThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>2019-01-08 20:40:07 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-01-08 16:33:47 -0700
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docs: Revamp tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible
Add a section about decoding /proc/sys/kernel/tainted, create a more understandable intro and a hopefully explain better the tainted flags in bugs, oops or panics messages. Only thing missing then is a table that quickly describes the various bits and taint flags before going into more detail, so add that as well. That table is partly based on a section from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt, but a bit more compact. To avoid confusion I added the shortened version to kernel.txt; the same table is used in three different places now: ./tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint, Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst and Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt During review of v1 (see above) a number of existing issues with the text were raised, like outdated usages as well as incomplete or missing descriptions. Address most of those as well. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> [jc: tightened up changelog] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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