Hi Bill,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Mancy" <rmancy(a)redhat.com>
To: "Beaker development" <beaker-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:43:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Beaker-devel] status of inventory using lshw?
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Peck" <bpeck(a)redhat.com>
> To: Beaker-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:33:53 AM
> Subject: [Beaker-devel] status of inventory using lshw?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I know some work was done to convert from using Smolt to Lshw, but
> I
> don't see anything committed in the latest develop branch and I
> can't
> find a branch with lshw in the name. I'm anxious to see this work
> completed, if there is a branch being worked on, I can help
> contributee
> if needed. This work is becoming necessary since some
> architectures
> can
> only install Fedora 18 or newer and smolt is no longer available.
>
Bill, I think this is the latest patch,
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/1421/.
Yes indeed it is. This is mostly James's work. I took it over once he left and I do
plan to see it completed.
The state when I left it was, IIRC that we needed to do a thorough comparison of what
smolt used to give us and what
we got from lshw.
I also went ahead and wrote a patch for eliminating libparted usage and instead use lshw
for disk information as well.
(
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/1659/). Since 'lshw' lacked support for IBM
DASD disks, I wrote a upstream patch
for that as well. (I should rebuild lshw with that patch in Brew).
I have a feeling 'lshw' will fail to retrieve some other information (such as USB
devices) on s390 as well (I am
trying to recall from memory, so I may be wrong). The good thing however is that, I gained
a fairly good idea of lshw code and can add features as we need them.
That is also probably another reason, I left it at that point of time, since it required
substantial time to be spent with upstream work.
So, yeah, the summary is I should start working on it again and actively see it to
completion. Hopefully, I will resume once
the 0.12 is out of the way.
Let me know what you think.
-Amit
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Amit Saha <
http://echorand.me>
Infrastructure Engineering and Development
Red Hat, Inc.