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@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
+ 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
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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