[gentoo-dev] Adding hw-probe in Gentoo

[Conrad Kostecki]

Hi all,

a longer time ago, there were some concerns about privacy reasons 
discussed here. It took a long time, but there is now a new version 
released with lot's of changes. Since all results are still by default 
uploaded, It should be noted, that hw-probeuploads a 32-byte prefix of 
salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly 
identify unique computers and hard drives. Here is one example report of 
one of my devices https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6bc7d86b9c. FWICS, 
sensetive informtion seems not to be present. I would like to gather 
some opinion about here, if there are any objections about adding 
hw-probe to Gentoo.

Cheers, Conrad