staging drivers hwdb stats

Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria at canonical.com
Thu Jun 18 06:59:10 UTC 2009


On 09 Jun 17, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Per the last Ubuntu kernel team IRC meeting there was a discussion
> regarding the /staging drivers spec[1] and who is going to take
> ownership.  It was mentioned it might be helpful to get some stats from
> the hwdb to indicate which of the drivers might have a larger presence.
> Here's some numbers that I was able to get.  Keep in mind that an
> individual is able to submit more than one hw profile and obviously
> submitting a hw profile is completely optional.  
> 
>              hw profiles
> driver       w/driver     total profiles  submitters  total submitters
> ======       ===========  ==============  ==========  ================
> compcache    0            1,265,248       0           934,263 
> dm-raid4-5   0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> iscsi_trgt   0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> ndiswrapper  18,699       1,265,248       6405        934,263
> av5100       0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> pbe5         0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> appleir      286          1,265,248       125         934,263
> fsam7400     0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> lmpcm_usb    1194         1,265,248       379         934,263
> thinkpad_ec  0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> tp_smapi     0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> ov511        2179         1,265,248       524         934,263
> 
> I left off stats for the following drivers as the gobby doc indicated
> they were going to be disabled/dropped (let me know if you'd like to see
> data on them anyways):
> 
> aufs - disable/drop
> dm-loop - disable/drop
> gfs - disable/drop
> lenovo-sl-laptop - disable/drop
> tlsup - disable/drop
> snd-bt-sco - disable/drop
> acx - disable/drop
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> Leann
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/KernelKarmicSponsoringStagingDrivers


Great report Leanne! Now if you'll also publish a sample script to
buildscripts.git on how to do this ourselves so we don't have to bother
you everytime.

/Amit
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