[Nut-upsdev] order of subdirectories and nut-usbinfo.pl

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/12/14 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> Arnaud,

Hey Charles,

a quick side note: just back from UDS in Mountain View.
I'm a bit jet lagged, and have tons of unreplied.
bear with me  bit more, everything will get done in time.

> should we move tools/ up to the beginning of the subdirectory list? It
> seems that it is writing some *.in files during 'make dist', which
> should undergo variable substitution. (There will probably be other
> dependency issues to resolve, but that would be the first step.)

fully right, excellent catch.

> On a related note, I would like to add some code to nut-usbinfo.pl to
> blacklist bogus vendor IDs (e.g. 0x0000, or the Lakeview Research VID)
> from the HAL files. I guess we can leave them in the udev/hotplug
> files, but eventually we will want to separate them out as well (as
> discussed previously)

the later solution (macro) is to be applied there.
depending on the result, we'll check for the compiled addons.

Arnaud