Re: Setting dangerous option enable_ips - tainting kernel ???

[Neal Becker]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>  On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 09:42 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
> > > Driver
> > > - 3.2.6-k
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015
> > > Intel
> > > Corporation.
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: Interrupt
> > > Throttling
> > > Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0
> > > 20060810
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found,
> > > idVendor=046d, idProduct=c52b
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings:
> > > Mfr=1,
> > > Product=2, SerialNumber=0
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: usb 2-1: Product: USB Receiver
> > > Mar  2 08:37:12 nbecker2 kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Logitech
> > > Mar  2 08:37:13 nbecker2 kernel: raid6: sse2x1   gen()  5863 MB/s
> > > Mar  2 08:37:13 nbecker2 kernel: raid6: sse2x1   xor()  3833 MB/s
> > > Mar  2 08:37:13 nbecker2 kernel: Setting dangerous option
> > > enable_ips -
> > > tainting kernel
> > > 
> > > what's that about?  I can't report problems because of this taint.
> > > 
> > Nevermind - I found this one, operator error
>  
>  A brief explanation might be of help to other people.
>  
>  poc 
I had previous put i915.enable_ips=0 in the grub kernel command line 
options, as explained: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95741