Collecting hardware compatibility, Was: i give up
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 30 23:16:46 PST 2008
> 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
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