Diego Calleja <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> 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.
What use is it to me when I'm going to buy ShinyCard-9900, and the database
tells me that RandomChip 2530a is supported? The packages rarely tell you
what chips are in the cards, moreover there have been cases of /very
similar/ card versions (i.e., SomeThing-990 and SomeThing-990+, or
Card-897a and Card-897b) being /totally/ different inside). The only
reliable way to find out if it works is a test drive. Distributions like
Ubuntu are invaluable here.
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