[Nodeshot] Refactoring doubt: device fields firmware and OS

[Fabio Capriati]

It's possible to retrive these information from devices remotly and
building automatically this table by script.


2013/11/6 nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org>

> Your proposal could be useful if we used that information to generate the
> image to be installed on devices, but at the moment this is not on my todo
> list, and I would adopt the kiss principle and keep it as more simple as
> possible.
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> Federico
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> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:35:10 +0100, Fabio Capriati <
> fabio.capriati at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In my opinion, it could be righta a table "Firmware" with this
>> fields:
>>
>> Integer "ID"
>> String "Operative System"   (OperWRT | MicrotiKOS | AirOS)
>> String "Name" (Stock | Sburratone | Scorreggione)
>> Integer "Version"
>> Bool "Support IPV6"
>> Bool "Support SNMP"
>> Bool ....
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>> So into device you can put only the ID reference.
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>> 2013/11/6 Stefano De Carlo
>>  Il 06/11/2013 14:00, nemesis ha scritto:
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>>>   > In the Device table at the moment we have "os" which stands for
>>  > "operating system" and "firmware", both are optional fields.
>>  >
>>  > Does it have sense to have both? Or in case of embedded device the
>> OS
>>  > field should be filled with the firmware name?
>>  >
>>  > Have your say
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>>  In my experience I think It's best not to have semantic clashes like
>>  this one and just go for an agnostic term. "Operating System" will
>> work
>>  just fine for the whole device spectrum.
>>
>>  Stefanauss.
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