[PATCH v2 0/2] Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 14:43:20 EST


Hi! This is the second version of my patch to make
admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst more comprehensible. It got triggered while
working on an update for reporting-bugs.rst, as improving the documentation
around reporting bugs and regressions was one of the main things that a lot of
people wanted to see while regression tracking was discussed in the kernel and
maintainer summit 2017 in Prague.

This is the second version of the patch, which became a patch set, as it now
contains a script Randy (thx) provided during the discussion of the first
version.

Please review and consider applying.

Ciao, Thorsten

Changes since v1 [1]:
- add tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
- take care of Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt as well
- renumber existing description to avoid and off-by-one
- add verbose description for three more taints bits
- fix a lots of small issues raised during review

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181217152043.9989-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Thorsten Leemhuis (2):
tools: create tools/debugging/ and add a script decoding
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted
docs: Revamp tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 159 +++++++++++---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 50 ++---
tools/Makefile | 14 +-
tools/debugging/Makefile | 16 ++
tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint | 202 ++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/debugging/Makefile
create mode 100755 tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint

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