[Devel] [PATCH] Report that kernel is tainted if there were an OOPS before

Pavel Emelianov xemul at sw.ru
Mon Apr 16 03:23:26 PDT 2007


If the kernel OOPS-ed or BUG-ed then it probably should
considered as tainted. Use die_counter introduced by many
architectures to determine whether or not the kernel died.

This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltrace seen via SysRq-P.
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