On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:52:22AM +0800, Nur Hussein wrote: > This patch will taint the kernel with a new flag, 'W', whenever a > warning is issued with WARN_ON(condition). Whenever a warning occurs, it > is helpful to record this within the kernel state as a taint. When a BUG > happens, it'd be useful to know if it was also preceded by a WARN.
Any architecture that has it's own WARN_ON will not taint the kernel. Speaking of WARN_ON... $ git-grep "[^A-Za-z_0-9]WARN_ON(1)" | wc -l 180 Maybe making a WARN() (similar to BUG) that does an unconditional warning (and sets the taint flag) and having a simple wrapper around it for the conditional WARN_ON would be worth it? Hm...looks like some of the USB folks have a #define'd WARN to something quite a bit more complex (format string, etc.) Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- Linux, n.: Generous programmers from around the world all join forces to help you shoot yourself in the foot for free. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
