From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267380AbUHVVtv (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:49:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267381AbUHVVth (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:49:37 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:17552 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266775AbUHVVrj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:47:39 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List From: Alan Cox To: "David N. Welton" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <87vffaq4p1.fsf@dedasys.com> References: <87r7q0th2n.fsf@dedasys.com> <1093173291.24341.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87vffaq4p1.fsf@dedasys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093207525.25067.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:45:27 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Alan