White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability

Posted May 23, 2024 21:48 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability by mezcalero
Parent article: White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability

> So first of all "dmesg" doesn't work anymore on Fedora (you need perms now).

Fedora just flipped the default, starting with their 6.8 kernels IIRC.

Reverting it is just a matter of:

sysctl kernel.dmesg_restrict=0

> It's a wall, a deluge of text. Don't expect me to read all that.

Fortunately, it's rare when anything beyond the final dozen or so lines matters. (eg the messages that show up when you plug something in, or if something goes wrong...)