Hello Mickael, Please join us on #sigrok on freenode to get a wiki account, that's where the bot resides.
As for the CLI switch... it would require a driver API change so that all drivers can make use of it. I'm not 100% sure what would be the best way to approach this, so doing this as a proof-of-concept for one driver might be a good base for further discussion. -Soeren On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 23:53 +0200, Mickael Bosch wrote: > >> if users > >> want the information to be available, and up-to-date. Waiting for > >> somebody else to do it all (and do stuff they don't even know > >> about) won't result in much progress. > > I agree. May I have a wiki account to add the TENMA_72_2705_V65 in the > wiki? My point was to say that the devices listed in the Korad KAxxxxP > series page [1] should be in the main supported hardware page [2] > because (presumably a lot of people and) I see no relation between a > Korad product and a Tenma product at a first glance. > > Soeren, I like the CLI switch improvement. If I understand it correctly, > all libsigrok/hardware/*/api.c should be modified to comply with it? > > [1] https://sigrok.org/wiki/Korad_KAxxxxP_series > [2] https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware#Power_supplies > > Mickael > > On 06/06/2020 12:42, Soeren Apel wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 12:27 +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > > On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 00:29 +0200, Mickael Bosch wrote: > > > > [ ... yet another compatible ... ] > > > > > > > > The "*IDN?" output is: > > > > > > > > TENMA 72-2705 V6.5 SN:<8 digits SN> > > > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > > > BTW, when I bought this device I thought I would have to write a > > > > complete driver. I had a good surprise when I saw that the > > > > korad-kaxxxxp driver already does all the hard stuff. That said, do > > > > you think that listing *all* known compatible devices in [2] would > > > > help sigrok newbies like me and show that sigrok rules? > > > > > > Here is the trick question: Can you enumerate all known > > > compatible devices, and tell whether they are operational, > > > without having access to them? Can you tell how to determine the > > > devices' capabilities or limits in advance, and how they may or > > > may not identify themselves? That may answer the question whether > > > the project is able to provide the support out of the box for > > > devices they don't know about in the first place ... :) > > > > My take on it is this: how can users verify whether a device works or > > not if they *must* alter the source code first and compile everything > > from scratch? That's not helping, honestly. > > > > What I would wish for is a command-line switch that allows users to > > forego the whitelisting in the drivers and force a particular driver to > > use a particular (USB) device to be a particular model. That way, users > > wouldn't need to alter the source code. > > > > Alas, none of us have the time to work on that, I reckon. > > > > -Soeren > > > > > > > > > Which means that it does take the users' reports of their > > > existance and whether they work, before support can be claimed. > > > Also users participating in wiki updates is required, if users > > > want the information to be available, and up-to-date. Waiting for > > > somebody else to do it all (and do stuff they don't even know > > > about) won't result in much progress. > > > > > > > > > virtually yours > > > Gerhard Sittig > > > -- > > > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > > > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > sigrok-devel mailing list > > > sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sigrok-devel mailing list > > sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > sigrok-devel mailing list > sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
