<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:06 AM Valdis Klētnieks <<a href="mailto:valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu">valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:29:10 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said:<br>
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> Use : linux-check-removal <uname-r of your kernel to remove><br>
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That's a debian-specific thing...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep and he is running Ubuntu which is a derivative of Debian ? His .config just told me this :-) <br></div><div>But valid point will keep things generic in future.<br></div><div>CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0" </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> > Seriously - if you're not comfortable with that level of sysadmin<br>
> > procedures,<br>
> > maybe you shouldn't be a kernel hacker...<br>
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> Do not listen to Valdis in this case as we were all newbies at one time<br>
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That's not what I said.<br>
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What I *said* was "if you're a newbie who's all "ZOMG I'm going to accidentally break it"<br>
maybe you shouldn't be a kernel hacker. :)<br>
<br></blockquote><div>So he breaks it. Then comes the fun part when he learns how to fix it :-)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> And listen to more experienced folk like Valdis who probably knows more<br>
> about all the subsystems than anyone.<br>
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Oh, there's people like Greg KH who know a lot more than I do. He's also<br>
*paid* to know a lot more than I do. :) After 4 decades in IT, I've just gotten<br>
good at debugging and knowing where to start checking for more data on<br>
something.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Why don't any of us ever get paid ? Ouch... <br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>