In T3082#95656, @gniibe wrote:

Thank you for your comment.

I think that a practical approach for us would be having a list of vendor-id:product-id in a file under gnupg/doc/ and maintain the list.
It will be up to distributions to use the list to build hwdb, udev rules, or whatever.

In T3082#95636, @gniibe wrote:

(3) We don't know which smartcard reader works fine, while we know some readers don't work well.