On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
As an alternative/addition, which has also been brought up before, why don't we build in the most basic of modules? I'll bet we can cover at least 50% of the use cases by picking some choice pata/sata modules (e.g. ahci, ata_piix, pata_jmicron, sd_mod, ext4) and compiling them in staticly. It, of course, doesn't cover folks with non-trivial setups, but it provides a bulletproof bootstrap for a lot of people.
I really think this would be a good idea. I wanted to make some additions to pierres pkgstats stuff so we could have an idea of how large percentage of our users would be covered by the modules you propose. I expect the vast majority would.
Sure. I'd love to see the running kernel version and the first column of /proc/modules submitted with pkgstats. If we were to reset the global stats (or just reset the epoch) and make a concerted effort to have people submit (news post, social media, allan's blog, etc) I'll bet we could gather some good usage stats from -ARCH kernel consumers in a fairly short timeframe.
Pierre: would something like the attached patch make sense for pkgstats? Cheers, Tom