Re: [PATCH] Separate tainted code from panic code

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 10:07:19 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> > Why? What reason is there for making these changes?
>
> Most tainted users are in arch/$ARCH/kernel/. The rest including
> kernel.h don't want tainted stuff. And kernel.h is used often.

The tainted definitions don't change very often, they also have no config
dependencies, so the benefit of separating this is very low.

bye, Roman
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/