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return a string to represent the kernel taint state.
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">const char * <b class="fsfunc">print_tainted </b>(</code></td><td> <var class="pdparam">void</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2613895"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>void</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
no arguments
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'P' - Proprietary module has been loaded.
'F' - Module has been forcibly loaded.
'S' - SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
'R' - User forced a module unload.
'M' - System experienced a machine check exception.
'B' - System has hit bad_page.
'U' - Userspace-defined naughtiness.
'D' - Kernel has oopsed before
'A' - ACPI table overridden.
'W' - Taint on warning.
'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.
'I' - Working around severe firmware bug, unusued in RHEL6
'H' - Hardware is unsupported.
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The string is overwritten by the next call to <code class="function">print_tainted</code>.
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