From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 2 15:40:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1C514C9D; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA118588; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:39:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:45:19 -0500 To: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Hardware list idea Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:37 PM -0800 12/2/99, Julian Elischer wrote: >Might it be an idea to allow the setup program to have an option >"Send word back to FreeBSD.org that this model of machine works". > >or maybe, just a version of send-pr that does that, and uses a >different template: I think openbsd asks users to email them the output of 'dmesg', so they can tell which drivers are really of interest to the greatest number of their users. Seems like a reasonable idea. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message