[OM Cooker] Hardware database and HW Probe 1.0

Giuseppe Ghibò ghibomgx at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 08:36:58 EST 2016



On 02/11/2016 02:10 PM, Ponomarenko Andrey wrote:
> 11.02.2016, 02:20, "Tomasz Paweł Gajc":
>> Dnia wtorek, 9 lutego 2016 01:38:00 Ponomarenko Andrey pisze:
>>>   Hi Tomasz,
>>>
>>>   It would be great!
>>>
>>>   Thank you.
>> Done.
>>
>> Andrey you should think about systemd timer feature, to allow to start hw-
>> probe one time per XX time i.e month and upload probed data to http://linux-hardware.org
>>
> Hello,
>
> The space on the server is limited, so it's better to upload only one probe per new computer/OS version and one per each new hardware issue found. Otherwise it will be necessary to overwrite old probes of a computer by new ones or increase space on the server.
>

Indeed, why once per month? Is that an heartbeat? Unless the hwprobe 
would change adding new
features, the hardware is usually not changing every month, so every 
month the cron job would produce and upload the same output. IMHO once 
and forall is enough.

One feature that could be added instead is a sort of "anonymous mode"; 
as you can see the output
contains useful information for common use, but also contains private 
data, such as the serial number of the devices (disks, cards, etc.) 
which sysadmins aren't generally prone to release publically. This 
feature isn't so easy to add, though not impossible, as one have to take 
the whole output and parse it with some regexp, where of the serial 
numbers or other private data (e.g. public IPs, etc.) are obfuscated 
with just "*****".

Bye
Giuseppe.




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