[Nut-upsdev] APC USB UPS vs FreeBSD 6.x

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> Citeren Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>:
> > OK, so it needs another entry for this particular UPS? I wonder if
> > there is some more general way of detecting this particular
> > implementation..
>
> No. The problem here is that APC uses the same HID path in different
> ways. Since they also use a single VID:PID combination for all their
> devices, there is no easy way to tell when to use date_conversion()
> and when to use apc_date_conversion().

OK.

> It is tempting to base this on the size of the field that is
> reported, but it would require a major amount of work on the base
> usbhid-ups driver, since we only pass the parameters by value and not
> by the full HID path information. Not that it isn't doable, but it
> takes much more work than I'm prepared to spend on a vendor that
> isn't really supportive with NUT.

Fair enough.

> Basically, I'm telling you that we probably won't fix this in the
> near future.

Yep, well NUT works perfectly well for what I want it for (better than 
expected given the vagaries of the USB stack on FreeBSD 6.x :)

Thanks for your reply!

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