[Nut-upsdev] Gathering information : drivers and UPS infos

[Peter Selinger]

Jonathan Dion wrote:
> 
> Hello NUT !
> 
> In order to fill info structure I'm putting in the drivers, I need to
> gather a lot of information.
> 
> The information I need, at best, is :
> 
> - For each USB UPS, the pair VendorID ProductID

All the VendorID/ProductID pairs that I know of are listed in
scripts/hotplug.

> - For each pair Driver/UPS supported, how was made the driver ? By the
> manufacturer, by reverse engineering, ...

belkinunv: by reverse engineering. I am the author and the maintainer
newhidups: belkin and tripplite: by reverse engineering. apc: don't
  know. mge: by Arnaud/the manufacturer

> - Who contributed to which driver

I contributed to newhidups and belkinunv. 

> - Who is the "maintener" of each driver

I maintain newhidups and belkinunv (this information is already in
MAINTAINERS).

-- Peter

> I already have some of this information, but not all. For instance
> when a claim function only match the VendorID, I don't know the
> ProductID of the UPSs.
> 
> If you have some piece of information about this, please send it to
> me. Not only will it be usefull to fill the structure, but also to
> take stock of what have been done so far
> 
> I thank you in advance for your participation
> 
> Jonathan Dion
> 
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