From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:43:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491 In-Reply-To: <200511251050.02833.kernel@kolivas.org> Message-ID: References: <25093.1132876061@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <200511251050.02833.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Con Kolivas Cc: Keith Owens , Dave Jones , Alistair John Strachan , Kenneth W , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT), > > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > >> > > >> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people. > > >> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over > > >> the last few months). > > >> > > >> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of > > >> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ? > > > > > >Please, please do: it's insane as is. But I've CC'ed Keith, > > >we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops. > > > > 'G' is not one of mine, I find it annoying as well. > > Would anyone object to changing it so that tainted only means Proprietary > taint and use a different keyword for GPL tainting such as "Corrupted"? I don't see the point. The system is in a dubious state, tainted is the word we've been using for that, the flags indicate what's suspect, why play with the wording further? But replace 'G' by ' ' certainly. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org