Bug 494142 - decimal PCI vendor:product is hard to use
Summary: decimal PCI vendor:product is hard to use
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: smolt
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike McGrath
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-05 00:26 UTC by John Reiser
Modified: 2012-08-07 20:15 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 20:15:24 UTC
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Description John Reiser 2009-04-05 00:26:43 UTC
Description of problem: The text of a smolt profile uses decimal numbers (base 10) for PCI vendor and product IDs.  Everywhere else (hardware compatibility databases on the web, ...) uses hexadecimal (base 16) for PCI vendor:product.  This makes a smolt profile hard to use, hard to check, hard to trust.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
smolt-1.2-4.fc11.noarch


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Inspect smolt profile at first boot after fresh install of Fedora 11 beta, when the user is asked for permission to send the profile.
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Actual results: Profile contains decimal numbers for PCI vendor and product IDs.


Expected results: Profile uses hexadecimal numbers for PCI vendor and product IDs.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 13:17:20 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:30:24 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:41:57 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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Comment 4 John Reiser 2011-03-03 16:51:12 UTC
Bad usability of decimal PCI IDs by smolt continues to impede Fedora.  For example:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/149291.html
Please re-open.

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