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...