From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sun Oct 7 23:41:54 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C7B10ABEFE for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:41:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rleigh@codelibre.net) Received: from b-painless.mh.aa.net.uk (b-painless.mh.aa.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D84D710DF for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:41:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rleigh@codelibre.net) Received: from 0.a.3.c.a.6.a.4.1.3.f.e.a.2.1.d.d.b.d.d.0.6.8.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa ([2001:8b0:860:ddbd:d12a:ef31:4a6a:c3a0]) by b-painless.mh.aa.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g9IgL-0004cL-LR for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:41:53 +0100 Subject: Re: dmesg submission service -- please submit today To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: From: Roger Leigh Message-ID: <0ca6d0d5-4e18-adbe-8b33-090d6ef66067@codelibre.net> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:41:43 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:41:55 -0000 On 07/10/2018 05:40, Warner Losh wrote: >> I'd like to request as many people as possible submit >> their current dmesg to the service at http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi so >> that we have a better basis for future preliminary lists of drivers for >> other parts of the tree. > This one-liner works to submit, though you'll need to change username, > email and maybe tweak the description if your system doesn't have decent > smbios entries. It's also x86 centric, since other systems won't have this > information as readily available. Out of interest, has FreeBSD considered implementing an equivalent of Debian's "popularity-contest" package, which periodically submits anonymised lists of installed packages? On FreeBSD this could be from the pkg database, and could also include hardware information. In Debian, it's opt-in at install time, or installable afterward. If FreeBSD had a similar package and installer opt-in, this could potentially provide useful usage statistics without any privacy concerns. Regards, Roger