On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:47:11PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:39:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > 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? > > It's defined as 10 in kernel.h, which makes it actually the 11th bit, > and it's documented as 1024 in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. Doh, you are right, I was thinking that set_bit() started with 1 as the rightmost bit, when that would be 0. greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
