On 04/30/15 04:52, Kevin Cummings wrote:
On 04/28/2015 04:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/28/2015 01:19 PM, foxec208(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> On my laptop the file exists but it is zero bytes in length
> I just checked again and got a response of 0, so I probably typoed the
> first time.
My Dell Laptop gives a 0, it has an Intel video chipset.
Both of my desktop systems have nVidia chipsets in them, and both run
different versions of the nVidia proprietary drivers. They return 4099
and 12289.
And, FWIW, here are the meanings for the various bits....
[egreshko@meimei tainted]$ ./tainted -i
[bit] [bit value] [description]
0 1 A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
includes modules with no license.
Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools
1 2 A module was force loaded by insmod -f
2 4 Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP
3 8 A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f
4 16 A hardware machine check error occurred on the system
5 32 A bad page was discovered on the system
6 64 The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This
could be because they are running software that directly
modifies the hardware, or for other reasons
7 128 The system has died
8 256 The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the
user instead of using the one provided by the hardware
9 512 A kernel warning has occurred
10 1024 A module from drivers/staging was loaded
11 2048 The system is working around a severe firmware bug
12 4096 An out-of-tree module has been loaded
13 8192 An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting
module signature
14 16384 A soft lockup has previously occurred on the system
15 32768 The kernel has been live patched
For 12289 that works out to be....
[egreshko@meimei tainted]$ ./tainted
Taint value: 12289
[bit] [bit value] [description]
0 1 A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
includes modules with no license.
Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools
12 4096 An out-of-tree module has been loaded
13 8192 An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting
module signature
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