Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:16:38 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Collecting hardware compatibility, Was: i give up Message-ID: <49338F56.9050101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <D696E091-C0CF-4B86-94A6-2CBDBED335E0@ish.com.au> References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <3cb459ed0811291342i524eaab3g1acadcd9cbdb638b@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0811291556g3f08a814td68466ad02dee4fc@mail.gmail.com> <200811291515.01962.beech@freebsd.org> <4932DD73.9000109@freebsd.org> <20081130235621.GA51043@duncan.reilly.home> <49338183.3040500@freebsd.org> <D696E091-C0CF-4B86-94A6-2CBDBED335E0@ish.com.au>
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> 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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