[Nut-upsdev] Evolution of the driver.list file

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/9/2 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>

> On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:33 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
>  Since this file is not much computed currently (it's mostly useful for
>> configuration tools), we can break the format without worrying much.
>>
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> We might want to take this opportunity to define a "version=2" header of
> some sort, so that in the future, the tools will immediately know whether or
> not they are compatible. (At some point, we might want to move to a
> key-value format, especially if the information gets too sparse because of
> differences between PDUs and UPSes.)
>

good idea. I only added a few information in the header, including
@PACKAGE_VERSION@
but the version compat is more obvious. I've attached the current draft
header for info.

Do any Linux distributions do any processing based on that file?
>

not Debian, and not that I know. the only consumer ATM (to my knowledge) is
Opengear.

cheers,
Arnaud
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# Network UPS Tools - @PACKAGE_VERSION@ - Hardware Compatibility List
# version=2
#
# This file is used for various purposes, like building the HTML compatibility
# list or displaying information in NUT configuration tools.
#
# If you write a new driver, modify an existing one to add more support,
# or just know about some equipment that isn't listed but should be,
# please send us a patch to update this file.
#
# The format:
#
# <manufacturer>	<device type>	<support level>	<model name>	<model extra>	<driver [parameters]>
#
# Details:
# - device type: ups, pdu, scd
# - support level: a number from "1" to "5" (stars) meaning:
#   *       protocol based on reverse engineering
#   **      based on fragments of publicly available protocol
#   ***     based on publicly available protocol
#   ****    vendor provided protocol
#   *****   vendor provided protocol and hardware
# - driver [parameters]: mention the driver(s) (separated by "or" if there are
#   several possibilities. Any mandatory parameter(s) must be referenced, as
#   they will be parsed by configuration helper softwares.
#   For example, genericups entries must mention the "upstype=nn" format.
#
# Duplicate text in the last field will be cooked out during the conversion
# to HTML with ROWSPAN magic.  They must be an exact match for this to work.