[RFC] Ability to link launchpad bugs to the hardware database

Christian Robottom Reis kiko at canonical.com
Thu Feb 19 14:08:38 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:08:16AM -0800, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > What if . . . we could link a bug to one or more specific hardware
> > entities in the hardware database? That would make it trivially easy to
> > search for all bugs that relate to a particular piece of hardware,
> > instead of searching for the PCI or USB identifier and hoping it's in
> > the bug.
[...]
> 
> This was actually one of the features we (the kernel team) requested
> during the last UDS cycle. I've heard second or third hand that
> _something_ is going on with this feature, but I'm not sure of the
> details. Christian Reis (kiko) is likely a good person to ask.

Just as an FYI, Tom Berger, Abel and Martin A. are all working on this
and that right now is the time to plug into this work and ensure you are
getting what you want :-).
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