[Nut-upsdev] USB support for Sweex 1000 VA UPS (was: Help with

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 07:06:41 +0400, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:

> What I had in mind was not the protocol part, but rather all the
> surrounding stuff that needs to go into a special-purpose USB driver:
> USB recognition, possible -x options, error handling, Makefile magic,
> etc. Since you did all of that recently, you probably have a fresh
> memory of all that needs to be done. I haven't had time to read
> Eric's patch, but once it is working (on his hardware), implements a
> reasonable set of features (power monitoring and shutdown), and is
> reasonably NUT compliant, it should certainly be included in SVN.
>

Sure, I'll help him.

> Before we make a release, you (for the megatec_usb driver) should also
> think about whether to mark the driver as "experimental" (see
> docs/new-drivers.txt:95). If you feel it is stable enough, it doesn't
> need to be marked experimental. However, once it's in a release, there
> will be a certain expectation that it works, and marking it
> experimental for a while is a way to remind users that they are using
> it at their own risk.
>

IMO all parts of the driver are stable. 'agiler' subdriver (which
I have never touched) too, since it received much testing in past few
weeks.

> The same goes for the Sweex driver when it's included.
>

I'll have this in mind.

-- 
   Alexander