Re: dmesg submission service -- please submit today

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 2:16 AM Dhananjay Balan <mail_at_dbalan.in> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 11:40:36PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 12:48 PM Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > As you can tell, the project is looking to clear some of the deadwood
> from
> > > its driver lists. One problem is that we have to guess what's in used
> based
> > > on our personal experience. This has proven to be less reliable than
> hoped
> > > in the 10/100 discussions that are going on now.
> > >
> > > So, to that end, I'd like to request as many people as possible submit
> > > their current dmesg to the service at
> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi
> > > so that we have a better basis for future preliminary lists of drivers
> for
> > > other parts of the tree. Please take the time to make these submissions
> > > regardless of what your current hardware is. Please submit for any
> machine
> > > you'd like to upgrade to FreeBSD 12 or 13. Identifying information is
> > > generally masked out.
> > >
> > > This is just a request by me. I'll be using the data in about a month
> to
> > > look at old parallel scsi driver use. Though not definitive, it will be
> > > suggestive of what's in use. The data is currently a bit thin, so I
> thought
> > > I'd see what a message like this could do to improve that situation.
> This
> > > should be viewed as a personal suggestion right now...
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> > > P.S. I know there's other user generated data sites out there, but this
> > > appears to be the only one that's actually still working.
> > >
> >
> > This one-liner works to submit, though you'll need to change username,
> > email and maybe tweak the description if your system doesn't have decent
> > smbios entries. It's also x86 centric, since other systems won't have
> this
> > information as readily available.
> >
> > curl -v -d "nickname=$USER" -d "email=$USER_at_$(hostname)" -d
> > "description=FreeBSD/$(uname -m) on $(kenv smbios.system.maker) $(kenv
> > smbios.system.product)" -d "do=addd" --data-urlencode
> > 'dmesg_at_/var/run/dmesg.boot'
> > http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi
>
> When I try to submit (with the oneliner or web form), it fails with
>  "Sorry, this is an unsupported OS. If you feel it should be added, please
> contact admin."
>
> dmesg is from FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA8 r339174=b24b22909(master).
>

Oh right. There's a known bug I should have mentioned: If your uname
doesn't have a '#' in it, the script will reject it. You can add #0+ after
the ALPHA8 and before the r339174 and it will work. I've reported this to
the dmesg guys.

Warner