Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008

[Robert M. Albrecht]

Hi,

Fedoras Mike McGrath has started Smolt. Smolt is included since Fedora 7 
and supports Ubuntu, Suse, ...

Smolt collects hw-informations and sends them to a central server. This is 
done once while installation and regulary while running the system.

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt

Example: if you want to know, which network interfaces are used:

http://smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_NETWORK.html

The idea was discussed to link this data to wiki-pages, so users can 
contribute to a hw-database: drivers, howtos, status reports, ...

I think it has failed before, because the database would be large and needs 
to be updated very often. But Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap shows, this is 
possible. If every user does only contribute his two PCs, we could cover 
all eixsting hardware.

cu romal



Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008
Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:58PM +0200, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote:
 > Very very well put.  I strongly support this idea of "base", "common"
 > or "centralized" h/w compatibility list (and correspondence between
 > hardware make and model and driver name).

Too bad it's pretty much an impossible task :)

It's been tried before, and failed.  If anyone wants to try this again,
please at least study what failed before and seriously reconsider the
idea, it is something that I personally think can never be achieved, you
will _always_ be playing catchup.

good luck,

greg k-h