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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:14:44 +0100
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: dirk@steuwer.de
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, wli@holomorphy.com, riel@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
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 escribi?:

> 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.
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