Re: Hardware compatibility list now online

[Andreas M. <and...@iv...>]

Hiho,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:47:43AM -0500, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> I've added a hardware compatibility list/application to the

Great! I will add my devices today.

>  - Please take the time to look up the CSR ROM GUIDs for your device
> using gscanbus. We can use this to make gscanbus' database of devices
> more complete, and I imagine other applications may make use of this to
> allow the user to select a device with which to work.

No, please do NOT do that.

The GUID of a device is the GLOBAL unique ID. Even if you have the exact same
model of a device like I do, they will have different GUIDs. The guid.conf
from gscanbus is an ugly dirty cludge, just to make it display your particular
devices correctly, and the IDs I put in are bogus. Finding a better way to
identify devices is already on my agenda, but I it is currently very hard for
me to get enough spare time to even fix the segfault.

Anyway: If someone has a device identification library in the works, I will
happily make use of it.

The key fields for identifying a device should probably be Vendor ID and
Model ID. Model ID seems to be 0 in many cases, so a combination of Vendor ID
and some other values (like Unit Spec ID, Unit SW Version, etc.) might be
appropriate. I am sure there is some document clarifying all this somewhere on
the net.

-- 
Andreas Micklei
IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG
Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin
http://www.ivistar.de