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