I forgot to post the link to the server-side of the pci plugin: https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/libs/census/server/plugins/hardware/pci.py On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is why I don't think we need to have all the data collection > requirements up front. Clevis is designed to be very modular. A data > collector plugin is just an executable that outputs a JSON blob. A > corresponding server-side plugin parses this data and stores it in the > database in an efficient way to be later queried. > > My goal is to stand up the basic service with some initial limited > data. Once we prove that this works, domain experts can write the > plugins to gather the data they want to collect. Here's an example to > show how easy it would be (this is the PCI device plugin): > > https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/client/plugins/hardware.pci > > A really great example is the one Peter Robinson just gave. I know > nothing about "SoC attached" devices. Nor should I. I can just let > Peter write the client and server plugins and help review them for > semantic correctness. He can also craft the queries he wants. But > since he's the domain expert, he get's to make most of the important > decisions. > > If census does its job right, it totally offloads data collection and > analysis to the people who know what they are doing with that data. > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> For some time now, Fedora has operated without a database of hardware >> users have. Smolt, the old hardware database, was retired in 2012[0] and >> its intended successor[1] was never deployed by Fedora Infrastructure. >> >> It would be nice to have a hardware database, so I (and hopefully some >> others) would like to get Census up and running for Fedora. Before we >> look at deploying Census, however, it would be good to make sure it has >> everything we need. >> >> Census has client plugins to collect information[2]. At the moment, it >> has plugins for: >> >> * The vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, and class from >> each PCI device >> >> * The idVendor, idProduct, bcdDevice, and bDeviceClass for USB devices >> as well as the bInterfaceClass, bInterfaceSubClass, and >> bInterfaceProtocol for each interface >> >> * The contents of /etc/os-release >> >> * All the RPMs installed on a system >> >> Other than the drivers bound to the PCI and USB devices (which is an >> open PR[3]), what else would be good to collect? >> >> [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement >> [1] https://github.com/npmccallum/census >> [2] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/client/plugins/ >> [3] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/pull/3 >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Cline >> XMPP: jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx >> IRC: jcline >> _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
