This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI
DMAR tables.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
+ 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform
+ firmware (BIOS or similar).
+
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
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
#define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE 8
#define TAINT_WARN 9
#define TAINT_CRAP 10
#define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE 8
#define TAINT_WARN 9
#define TAINT_CRAP 10
+#define TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND 11
extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
{ TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' ' },
{ TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' },
{ TAINT_CRAP, 'C', ' ' },
{ TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' ' },
{ TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' },
{ TAINT_CRAP, 'C', ' ' },
+ { TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' ' },
* 'A' - ACPI table overridden.
* 'W' - Taint on warning.
* 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.
* 'A' - ACPI table overridden.
* 'W' - Taint on warning.
* 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.
+ * 'I' - Working around severe firmware bug.
*
* The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted().
*/
*
* The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted().
*/