[PATCH] taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts

[Randy Dunlap]

Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts. Add a reminder
to do this.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 kernel/panic.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- linux-next-20251014.orig/kernel/panic.c
+++ linux-next-20251014/kernel/panic.c
@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
 /*
  * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module
  * is being removed anyway.
+ *
+ * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,
+ * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and
+ * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its
+ * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of
+ * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.
  */
 const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
 	TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE,		'P', 'G', true),