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docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt
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If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be.

Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Nick Bowler authored and Jiri Kosina committed Nov 9, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.

10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.

11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.

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
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