On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 06:43 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> Should such probe use the default settings, or perhaps avoid the system
> logs and only send hardware information?  Looking at the boot log, I see
> the host name and LVM volume names being included.  I suspect it is best
> to avoid submitting such information in the default setup.

I haven't checked what information hw-probe submits, but it definitely
should not include hostname and LVM volume names, regardless of when
the submission happens. IIRC it removes serial numbers so it should
also be removing other private information.

> Perhaps 'hw-probe -probe -upload' is a good setup to use for install
> time reporting?

That is what I propose indeed, but we should review it first.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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