Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:47:26 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Exposing device ids and driver names |
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Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to lkml. > > I have the aim at creating two tools helpful to linux. The first tool > is a driver regression test of sorts. I want to be able to create > essentially a time line of hardware support as they appear in distros. > The second tool, related to the first, is a program which runs on > Windows and scans for a user's hardware and tells them which distro will > best support their hardware. I already have a working prototype of > these two tools. It currently uses the data exported by modinfo. This > however does not provide transparency for drivers compiled into the kernel.
Hardware support also depends on userland: Udev rules, libraries, application programs.
Even if you ignore that for now and only look at the kernel part of hardware support: Beyond "doesn't have a matching driver" and "does have", there is a large and impossible to track grey area of "has a poorly working driver" and "has a perfectly working driver". -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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