[Nut-upsdev] Scheduling NUT 2.6.1

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Chris,

2011/5/20 Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>

> Once upon a time, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> said:
> > time has come for a new NUT release: I'm planning on 2.6.1 next week (max
> > Friday 27), and I'm currently processing remaining patches.
> > If you have some more on your side, please send in.
>
> I need the following patch for NUT to work with my older PowerWare 9315.
> According to the docs linked from the NUT website, some of the info is
> only returned on newer models/firmware, and the only way to tell is to
> check the length of the returned data.  The current bcmxcp driver
> assumes everything is there and reads off the end of the returned data.
>
> This patch checks the length before trying to read the newer items.  I
> generated it against nut 2.4.3 because that's the version I'm running
> (on a RHEL server, pulling from Fedora EPEL), but it looks like that
> code has not changed in 2.6.
>

I've just applied it on the trunk (r3005), bumping both driver and serial
sub-driver versions.

Thanks for your contribution.
Arnaud
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