Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:11:15 +1100

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
> are then worked-around.  These bugs do not affect the stability of the
> kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag.  To allow for
> this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint
> flag as argument.
..
> The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be
> reviewed by architecture maintainers.

I'm not one of them, but this at least builds on powerpc FWIW.

cheers