[Nut-upsdev] newhidups: today's changes

[zaid_aj at telus.net]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:53:18AM -0300, Peter Selinger wrote:
> Here is a summary of the changes I made to newhidups today (between
> the tags after_PSE_6 and after_PSE_9, roughly).
> 
> * all the vendor-specific code that was in various "switch" statements
>   has now been moved to the individual subdriver (apc-hid, mge-hid,
>   belkin-hid) files. This also includes the vendor-specific Usage
>   tables.
> 
>   In future, it should be quite easy to add new subdrivers:
>   essentially this involves adding two files and one table entry in
>   newhidups.c. I added a document docs/hid-subdrivers.txt that is
>   intended to explain how to make subdrivers. This information is
>   still incomplete, but might be a good start.
> 
> * I have eliminated all global variables from libusb and some global
>   variables from libhid. IMHO, the use of global variables in a
>   library is a really bad idea, because it makes the library
>   non-reentrant, as well as making it near impossible to track the
>   data the enters and exits a function call.
> 
> -- Peter
> 
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Hello Peter,

I just gave today's CVS version a test and everything is working fine on the 
Belkin 550VA.

Zaid