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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>, Luis Chamberlain
 <mcgrof@kernel.org>, David Gow <davidgow@google.com>, Shuah Khan
 <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>, Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>,
 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add detailed explanation for 'N' taint flag
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:45:35 -0600
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Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com> writes:

> Every taint flag has an entry in the "More detailed explanation" section
> except for the 'N' flag. That omission was probably just an oversight so
> add an entry for that flag.
>
> Fixes: 2852ca7fba9f ("panic: Taint kernel if tests are run")
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> index f92551539e8a..700aa72eecb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> @@ -182,3 +182,5 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
>       produce extremely unusual kernel structure layouts (even performance
>       pathological ones), which is important to know when debugging. Set at
>       build time.
> +
> + 18) ``N`` if an in-kernel test, such as a KUnit test, has been run.

Applied, thanks.

jon