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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:28:16 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Separate tainted code from panic code
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Create kernel/tainted.c and include/linux/tainted.h
>  * Move all tainted-related stuff from kernel/panic.c and
>    include/linux/kernel.h there.
>  * #include <linux/tainted.h> where needed.
>  * Switch #include <linux/kernel.h> to #include <linux/tainted.h> in
>    kernel/module.c and mm/page_alloc.c . Said includes were added during
>    add_taint() propagation and tainted stuff was in kernel.h back then.

Why?  What reason is there for making these changes?