1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>add_taint</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers"><link rel="up" href="ch01s09.html" title="Kernel utility functions"><link rel="prev" href="API-panic.html" title="panic"><link rel="next" href="re213.html" title=".//kernel/sys.c"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">add_taint</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-panic.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Kernel utility functions</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="re213.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-add-taint"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>add_taint &#8212; 
2   </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">add_taint </b>(</code></td><td>unsigned <var class="pdparam">flag</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>enum lockdep_ok <var class="pdparam">lockdep_ok</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1108535548"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>flag</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
3     one of the TAINT_* constants.
4    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>lockdep_ok</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
5     whether lock debugging is still OK.
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7   If something bad has gone wrong, you'll want <em class="parameter"><code>lockdebug_ok</code></em> = false, but for
8   some notewortht-but-not-corrupting cases, it can be set to true.
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