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SubjectRe: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe
>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.


DG
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