[Nodeshot] Refactoring doubt: device fields firmware and OS

[nemesis]

 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.

 Federico




 On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:35:10 +0100, Fabio Capriati 
 <fabio.capriati at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 .... 
>
> So into device you can put only the ID reference.
>
> 2013/11/6 Stefano De Carlo
>  Il 06/11/2013 14:00, nemesis ha scritto:
>
>>
>  > 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
>
>  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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