Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Diego Calleja
2005-12-08T14:03:41Z

El Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:23:11 +0000 (UTC),
Dirk Steuwer <dirk@steuwer.de> escribió:

> For a hardwaredatabase i like to see a structure. Kernel developers are
> required to enter the support into the database, when submitting the driver.
> Ongoing status will be logged there as well. Status and devices can only be
> entered by kernel developers.

[Please don't remove the CC list]

This sounds like the typical nightmare that never is 100% accurate and
needs lots of mainteinance (developers not updating the wiki, etc) as
Lee Revell pointed out.

IMO the one way of creating such database is automating it. If you
could get a list of the device IDs supported by drivers you
could (?) use the pciid/usbid/whatever list to build a user-readable
database of the devices supported by the linux tree. Maybe it won't
100% perfect but...