Re: [H-source-users] generalize (or eliminate) the distros white-list

[Yuchen Pei]

bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:

> that could be fixed, retaining the global "it works", by making
> new reports clobber any existing ones; but then the historical
> information (that it ever worked with any kernel) could be lost
> - in the scenario above, with the current presentation, that
> device would appear as "works with free software? No" until
> someone posts a conflicting report

The nice thing about this database is it's also a wiki with 
history.  Having inspected a pseudorandom sample, it seems that 
the history of each item tends to contain just one entry.  If 
that's the case for 99% of the hardware entries (pending 
verification with some database query), then the existing reports 
can be treated as hardware X works with free software with any 
combination of the following distributions and kernels if we adopt 
a table representation like the one you proposed.  It may not be 
accurate, but probably won't lose much information compared to 
what we have, with added benefits that existing record won't need 
to be clobbered.

WDYT?

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Best,
Yuchen

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