From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267783AbUHWUt1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:49:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267765AbUHWUre (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:47:34 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:388 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267785AbUHWUpX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:45:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:45:13 -0700 From: cliff white To: Alan Cox Cc: davidw@dedasys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List Message-Id: <20040823134513.7ee62d81.cliffw@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1093207525.25067.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <87r7q0th2n.fsf@dedasys.com> <1093173291.24341.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87vffaq4p1.fsf@dedasys.com> <1093207525.25067.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:45:27 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 21:48, David N. Welton wrote: > > A "compatibility list" is going to be pretty big, and hard to keep up > > to date. My thinking is that keeping track of a few notable things > > that don't work is easier than running after all the stuff that does. > > Its already been kicked around on the Fedora list to actually build such > a database automatically. I've seen similar Debian proposals a long time > ago. That means some time post install you'd let the user > fire up a system report tool which would ask things like > > "Does sound work" > > and then fire off PCI id/rating info to a central site. That would help > deal with the data collection much as the Debian folks collect package > popularity statistics. > > > I suppose some sort of vote system could be put in place so that the 1 > > guy who didn't get the hardware to work gets outvoted by the 10 who > > did, but there is more incentive to hit the button when you are > > irritated than when everything 'just worked'. > > If you get enough data then the deviation tells you how varied and how > reliable the opinions are likely to be, all this implies databases not > WIki however > This sounds very interesting indeed. We (OSDL) have been talking about how to extend our testing into the ISV space, and how to supply useful data. This type of post-install, post-test 'i look like this, and this runs' data capture would be real useful, especially if we could capture software info also. Who else was interested in this? cliffw > > Alan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but i will walk carefully. - Russian proverb