Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Database for NetBSD. Contribute!
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/02/2000 20:42:10
> > I just submitted an entry, and added a
> > review/comment/testimonial/whatever. I put nice paragraph breaks (blank
> > lines) in to make it a legible body of text.
>
> This is what I will lovingly refer to as a bug. I fixed it. Your breaks were
> indeed saved.. I just converted them wrong for display.
Bug... I've heard of those things.
> Also.. looking over how people were using the database.. I noticed a number of
> CD and tape drives in the database, as well as a hard-drive. I hadn't imagined
> people would actually put these things in, so I've made a category for them.
I know that when I was looking for a tape-drive, I was a little concerned
by the ``Most SCSI tape drives are support'' type of comment. I didn't
know what to make of that.
Another thing that crossed my mind: There is a category for printers---is
it handled in a special manner? With the possible exception of USB
printers, it seems that dmesg output really doesn't apply to most
``consumer printers''. (E.g., typical parallel-port printers.)
> I also fixed it so if you changed the unique ID of an entry.. it won't leave a
> ghost hanging around anymore.
>
> I'm really happy to see this thing start to get filled out. Keep putting in
> those entries!
>
> I'm still working on some of the other suggestions posted here.. Some are more
> complex than others.
There will probably always be something more to do. I'm glad to see
something like this appear. (^&
"I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com