Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:14:44 +0100 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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El Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:49:46 +0100, dirk@steuwer.de escribió:
> How about interconnecting it with the bugtracker?
bugzilla is probably the best example of why human-managed "databases" are never 100% accurate and need lots of mainteinance 8) (take a look at mozilla's or kernel's bugzilla...). I'm tracking manually some of the new devices supported in http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges but there're so many changes under drivers/* that god knows how many things I am missing. Expecting that people will maintain a wiki or a buzgilla or anything similar properly is like expecting that people will document or compile-test their patches before submitting them :P
I think that the infrastructure for building such database automatically is already there: In the same way MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is used by hotplug & friends to load the right module you can use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to build a database of the devices supported by a kernel compiled with "make allmodconfig", parse it and put it in a web page. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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