[Nut-upsdev] Bestfortress driver

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Sat Aug 15 15:15:51 UTC 2009


On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Charles Lepple wrote:

> 
> We can mark the driver as "experimental" and in the man page, we can document
> that the driver has been in production, but based on an older version of the
> rest of the source tree.
> 
> An ideal driver would actually go through a full QA-style regression test, but
> especially for the larger UPSes, this often isn't practical.

Given the age of the fortress protocol, and that new UPSes don't use it
anymore, the driver is more of a "special interest" for parties that still have
a bunch of them in production (they are rugged, reliable, and the batteries
are still made).

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