From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Aruna Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com>
Cc: Gidi Gal <gidi.gal.linux@gmail.com>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: How to switch between installed kernel and developed kernel
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:06:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21684.1616511966@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSeFg8vgumYtVB+VvcYwaK1KMRpGU2Xn8jgcx2edfULh4D0Uw@mail.gmail.com>
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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...
> > 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. :)
> 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.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-22 12:11 How to switch between installed kernel and developed kernel Gidi Gal
2021-03-22 12:30 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2021-03-22 12:57 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-22 12:59 ` Bjørn Mork
2021-03-22 17:53 ` Gidi Gal
2021-03-22 21:18 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-03-22 21:19 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-03-22 22:01 ` Gidi Gal
2021-03-23 1:17 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-23 4:29 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-03-23 15:06 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2021-03-23 15:16 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-03-23 15:11 ` Gidi Gal
[not found] ` <CAB+0Vomu+EaW8N6VNMFcZBB29MxnYYvD=1bF98Tf+1YgwaRi2Q@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-23 15:05 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-23 15:23 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2021-03-23 8:53 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-03-25 15:42 ` jim.cromie
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