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taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts

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Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts.  Add a reminder to do
this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap
2025-10-15 15:16:26 -07:00
committed by Andrew Morton
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commit ed4bbe7e8f
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@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
/*
* TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module
* is being removed anyway.
*
* NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,
* please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and
* Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its
* small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of
* /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.
*/
const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G', true),