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

[Yuchen Pei]

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

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 17:34:10 +0100 Denis wrote:
> > It is possible to autodetect the driver used for a specific 
> > hardware.
>
> i suppose the client probably handles that already
>
> im not concerned about how to detect the module; my concern is
> the web presentation - consider the scenario where the distro
> does not distribute the module, but a user self-compiles and
> installs it, then runs h-client and publishes the report - the
> report will indicate that foomatic-123 works on that distro - 
> yet
> reports from every other user of that distro, indicate that it
> does not work (at least not OOTB)

Yeah this does sound like a potential inconsistency.

> ie: "works on parabola", is again equivalent to "works with
> linux-libre at this specific version (if you acquire the 
> module)"
>
> so most parabola users would find "works on parabola" to be
> false; while the same trick which worked for that one parabola
> user (and tainted the pool), would actually work as well on any
> other distro
>
> it seems that the current data model does not capture these
> subtleties; but they would be very informative to show


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Best,
Yuchen

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