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Another way is to show the flags values in the help, as a reference
point, since we will have to show these literals in help anyway (or
readme file).

-Ildar

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 05:11:05PM -0700, Ildar Muslukhov wrote:
>  >
>  > This patch introduces a new parameter to mask unimportant kernel taint
>  > flags.
>
> No objection to the idea of this, but I think the user interface is a bit painful.
> Who remembers those bitmasks?  It would be better if it used the names the kernel uses,
> so we could do something like
>
> --taint=DIE,BAD_PAGE
>
> Makes the parser a little more complicated, but imo would be much more usable.
>
> thoughts?
>
>         Dave
>
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