[Nut-upsdev] Re: about [ #302111 ] newhidups support for Belkin

[Charles Lepple]

On 9/13/05, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:
> > if a user wants to specify a specific device, they can e.g. use my new
> > regex mechanism.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to look at this mechanism, but it sounds cool.
> 
> Windows actually has a string-based way of matching devices - it looks
> like an URL-encoded string of VID, PID, class, etc. I'll try and send
> more info when I get home. The reason why this matters is that we
> could have a script that parses peoples' .inf files and converts it to
> your matching scheme.

hmm, I thought that Windows' scheme was more useful than just
"USB#Vid_0d3d&Pid_0028". Maybe this is something I saw in XP (I only
have 2000 at home).

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- Charles Lepple