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Bug 936404 - sys-kernel/genkernel-4.3.16 and others: Unnecessary warnings
Summary: sys-kernel/genkernel-4.3.16 and others: Unnecessary warnings
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial
Assignee: Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers
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Reported: 2024-07-20 17:36 UTC by Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin)
Modified: 2024-07-22 12:08 UTC (History)
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Description Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2024-07-20 17:36:20 UTC
sys-kernel/genkernel frequently issues unnecessary warnings for kernel parameters "that *may be required* to boot properly", such as dozfs or domdadm, even if you are already using them.  How difficult would it be to make genkernel *NOT* warn that you "might need" keywords that you're already using?

Not a functional problem, just a recurring minor annoyance that could lead a user to ignore warnings they actually should have attended to.  It's a "Cry Wolf" problem.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2024-07-22 12:07:42 UTC
Ideally genkernel would need to learn to read the config files of every bootloader available... grub, lilo, refind, systemd-boot, built-in cmdline for efistub, and probably more.

More realistically, someone could add a check for grub which would cover the majority of users.

But even more realistically, genkernel is not being actively developed so this is probably not happening unless you can submit a functional patch for this.

We could also just reword the warning a bit to be a bit less scary.