On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:18:47AM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 03:49:53PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:23:32PM -0200, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote:
Two questions about taint system..
1. I have a installation of archlinux with kernel 3.0, just after boot I cat /proc/sys/kenrel/tainted and receives 1024, but cat /var/log/messages | grep -i taint gives me no output. How can I know what is tainting my kernel?
Look for the "BIOS is broken..." message, 1024 is TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND.
No, it's TAINT_CRAP.
Really? As the person who added TAINT_CRAP to the kernel, for some foolish reason I thought that was the 10th bit, not the 11th bit, which would be 1024, right?
2. I was studying char devices, and have writed some code. I have put the MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); on the module, build it, put it on a initrd image and boot with qemu using -kernel and -initrd options. When I loadit with modprobe I receives a message on console saying that kernel was tainted and /proc/sys/kernel/tainted gives me 4024. There is any other thing on module, besides license that can taint the kernel?
Yes, lots of things, look at kernel.h for the full list.
It's also documented in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt, but TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND and TAINT_OOT_MODULE are not.
TAINT_OOT_MODULE is not in 3.0. greg k-h