[RFC] vendorinfo ( /etc/board.d/05-vendorinfo )

For Developers
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There are two device values that are unique to the board... they are stored on mtd in binary... and printed on the sticker with device mac addresses.

techno-babble

This might be handy in other situations where some device specific information is obtainable during install and relevant for support or setup ( think > losing it prevents you from using the device properly )

Would be very handy in the future if something like this ever gets off the ground...

Something in board.d > 05-vendorinfo which goes into system?

case "$board" in
somebrand,somemodel)	

	oemserial="xyz-abc123" #< not static just for demonstration

	uci add system vendorinfo
	uci set system.@vendorinfo[-1].oemserial="$oemserial"

	uci commit system
	;;
esac

Any other boards doing something like this? / existing standard?... if not.... better ideas?

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Some relevant discussion here ( github pr )

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some relevant ( an wise ) comments on the mailinglist

basically... the plethora of oem-specific data-types / locations / consistency....

make core integration of such details impracticable ( breakage prone / consistency of code integrity issues).

and while perhaps the future may require some sort of internal init-based checking for a consistently-named set of parameters if present.... integrating such get-and-set routines within "default" device definitions should be avoided due to the issues mentioned above... ( underlying systems can change at the drop of a hat )

suppose wiki entries / scripts would be the most appropriate for this kind of additional info/feature-sets. ( custom uci-defaults basically )