On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:06 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@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...
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