Collecting hardware compatibility, Was: i give up

[Tim Kientzle]

> However, it forms the basis of something that would be incredibly  
> useful. Imagine it also allowed users to note whether the particular  
> hardware is:
> 
> [ ] not recognised
> [ ] not reliable
> [ ] occasional issues
> [ ] no problems
> 
> Or something like that, with additional option for making comments.  
> Plus you'd want to be able to see the dmesg for each person who  
> reported the status of their hardware, otherwise it is pretty useless.

Tricky to find a good point to do this, though.
The initial data collection can be done at sysinstall
time, which is pretty natural for people.

Integrating this sort of feature into a bug-reporting
tool of some sort would be very intriguing.

Tim