[Nut-upsdev] Serial PnP for NUT?

[Arjen de Korte]

Arnaud Quette schreef:

> So, to conclude, I would prefer to give the necessary information
> about UPS and PnP (ID string for UPS supporting PnP (ie [2] for MGE),
> doc reference, ...), so that external apps can use these. We can
> possibly give some code (ie ripping [1]), but not including PnP code
> in drivers...

Agreed. Then the only thing is to create a cross reference of PnP
identifiers and drivers. Should we add this to the driver compatibility
list?

> Arnaud
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> [1] http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gi/tools/serial_probe/

Note that this tool will (rightfully) discard a PnP answer if the CRC is
incorrect. The only UPS on hand that blurped out something which looked
like a PnP string, has a bad CRC. Now if it only would be a little more
verbose (even in debug mode, it isn't really) about what is going on,
that would have saved me a couple of hours searching for what went
wrong... :-)

> [2] http://www.mgeups.com/techinfo/techdoc/pdf/MGE_PnP_Devices_Draft_AA.pdf
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