[Nut-upsdev] ups.firmware

[Arnaud Quette]

2006/8/25, Niklas Edmundsson <nikke at acc.umu.se>:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Peter Selinger wrote:
>
> > Another possibility is to let the driver construct a compound firmware
> > string.  How about ups.firmware = 'c:00.01 i:01.10 r:02.00 n:00.10
> > d:02.00'?  The firmware variable is an opaque string anyway, and as
> > far as I know, there is no restriction on its formatting. Is there a
> > reason why the driver shouldn't synthesize this string?
>
> I'd go with the compound string. The firmware version is only for
> informational purposes anyway, and by going the compound-string-route
> you don't have to create firmware.usb, firmware.snmp, firmware.io and
> whatever might be present in all different upsen.
>
> IMHO you don't have to cryptify the string though. 'control:00.01
> interface:01.10' etc is better, since NUT shouldn't die due to
> moderately long strings ;)

that suits me fine.

Arnaud
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