Commit ed4bbe7e authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Andrew Morton
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taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts 

Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts.  Add a reminder to do
this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent adc15829

kernel/panic.c

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@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); 
/*

 * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module

 * is being removed anyway.

 *

 * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,

 * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and

 * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its

 * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of

 * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.

 */

const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {

	TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE,		'P', 'G', true),