[hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database

[Richard Stallman]

    You have a few placeholders there.  FOOBAR is really Vendor+Device. 
    "driver" is really driver+revision.  It cries out for a Vendor table, at
    least.  

I was thinking of FOOBAR as just the manufacturer, and 33 is the model number.

    The real question is: how will we learn that mumble supports FOOBAR?  Is
    someone going to enumerate all the driver-device pairs?  I don't think so.
     I think driver writers will state what chipsets (or similar) they
    support, and manufacturers will state what chipsets they use (sometimes,
    or driver writers will discover it).  Only by relating though the shared
    information will it be possible to derive the the driver-device pairs.  

If including chipset info in each entry helps us do the work, by all
means let's include it.  I'm not drawing a line in the sand and saying
"Don't add any other info whatsoever".  What I'm saying is that we
have to include only the essential minimum.  Otherwise we will never
really get it started.  Please don't think about what would be nice to
add--at least, not now.  In a year, if things are going well, then you
can suggest things to add, and maybe we will be able to add them.