Since direct register writes may confuse the drivers and are supposed to be used only in diagnostic situations discourage their use in production by tainting the kernel when we do a write.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com --- sound/soc/soc-core.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-core.c b/sound/soc/soc-core.c index a233607..dbca5023 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c @@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ static ssize_t codec_reg_write_file(struct file *file, start++; if (strict_strtoul(start, 16, &value)) return -EINVAL; + + /* Userspace has been fiddling around behind the kernel's back */ + add_taint(TAINT_USER); + snd_soc_write(codec, reg, value); return buf_size; }