On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:51 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>  
>  > Reports about tainted kernels have arguably less value.  It would be
>  > good to hide such reports until a report of the same oops in an
>  > untainted kernel was found.
>  
> I disagree with this.  It's useful to have a "we've seen this before,
> and every time, it was tainted with xyz module" datapoint, especially
> if no untainted copies of that oops turn up.

+1

In fact, that's even more useful in many cases, if it helps demonstrate
that the oops is associated with a particular buggy binary driver. I can
see a lot of potentially interesting statistics coming from that too.

Jon.


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