panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')

This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI
DMAR tables.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
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Ben Hutchings 2010-04-03 19:36:42 +01:00 • committed by David Woodhouse
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@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform
firmware (BIOS or similar).
The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is