[Nut-upsdev] NUT: new blazer_usb subdriver proposal

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Arjen,

2011/5/20 Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>

> Citeren Aurélien Grenotton <agrenott at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  After some investigation, they almost use the krauler-type
>> communication already supported in the blazer_usb driver. However, the
>> UPS won't reply if the language ID is not 0x4095...
>> Therefore, I cloned the krauler_command, adding the language ID and
>> unicode to ASCII conversion (taken from libusb).
>>
>
> Thanks for this patch.


apart if I've missed something, I've not seen this 'upsilon' patch (well, a
reworked version) make its way in the trunk...
what about my idea to just use krauler with a param to switch langID?

have you something planned for 2.6.1, or will it wait a bit more?


>  I also enhanced the error!retry mechanism, as the UPS fails to reply quite
>> often.
>>
>
> This will put you at risk for (much more severe) timeout problems with the
> upsd server, so this part of the patch will not be included. But since this
> seems to be a problem for other devices as well, there is some merit in the
> problem you're trying to fix. We probably shouldn't complain in the syslog
> for intermittent problems and only report once we have reached the MAXTRIES
> limit. This needs to be fixed in the 'blazer.c' base driver (which I did).
>

I've seen that one.

cheers,
Arnaud
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