Fellows,<br><br>as you might have noticed, the online Hardware Compatibility List is evolving a lot with the new website:<br><a href="http://buildbot.ghz.cc/~buildbot/docs/r1940-91/website/stable-hcl.html">http://buildbot.ghz.cc/~buildbot/docs/r1940-91/website/stable-hcl.html</a><br>
<br>now, 2 more information are needed to provide better filtering and more accurate information:<br>- the type of device, since NUT now support UPS, PDU and SCD,<br>- the support level, as it was discussed, to show which vendors support NUT and which don't.<br>
the rating is from 1 to 5 stars, with the following meanings:<br>* protocol based on reverse engineering<br>
** based on fragments of publicly available protocol<br>
*** based on publicly available protocol<br>
**** vendor provided protocol<br>
***** vendor provided protocol and hardware<br>
<br>at first, I was thinking about putting these info into the drivers. but this seems not to be the best approach.<br>putting this directly into the driver.list would be better.<br><br>the current format of this file is:<br>
<manufacturer>\t<model name>\t<model extra>\t<driver [parameters]><br><br>the new format would be:<br><manufacturer>\t<device type>\t<support level>\t<model name>\t<model extra>\t<driver [parameters]><br clear="all">
<br>Since this file is not much computed currently (it's mostly useful for configuration tools), we can break the format without worrying much.<br><br>Any comments?<br><br>cheers,<br>Arnaud<br>-- <br>Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - <a href="http://www.eaton.com/mgeops" target="_blank">http://www.eaton.com/mgeops</a><br>
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/" target="_blank">http://www.networkupstools.org/</a><br>
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