Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dennis Grant" <> | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:28:29 -0500 | Subject | Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe |
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>On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:04, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: >> On November 26, 2002 12:35 pm, Rusty Lynch wrote:
>>> So how would you deal with somebody contributing bogus >>> mappings? What if somebody was just wrong, or uploading a >>> mapping in error?
>> The same applies to the kernel code, or any other open >> source project: How do you deal with somebody contributing >> bogus code?
>> Somehow things work out, as we have already witnessed.
> For boards its not that simple. Many vendors release multiple > utterly different machines with the same box, bios and ident. > The customer is told "IDE CD, 100mbit ethernet", the customer > gets random cheapest going ethernet.
Agreed - so then the association between "board" and "chipset" must be capable of being multi-valued, and when there is a mult-valued match there must be some means of further interrogating the user (or user agent) for more information.
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