[Nut-upsdev] Implementation of custom USV solution driver from manufacturer

[Kothe, Steffen]

Dear Nut-Devs,

I have general question to the contribution and the handling of new code in the NUT-Project.

We would like to implement our USV-Solution as a driver to NUT, but we are having the problem, that
we need a powerful “C”-based gpio library for it.

We discussed this topic internally, and we are having  the opinion, that it does make sense, to write this library separate from
a NUT-driver, and publish this gpio-library with GPLv2 to the community on our own github repo. In the driver itself, we would like to use
this library like an API.

In the NUT-project, we want to implement the the christ-usv driver and customize the autotools project for a dynamic compile of our driver.
The gpio-library would be a specific dependency of the christ-usv-driver and should not affect the other drivers or the whole project itself.

We would to contribute our driver back to the official project/community and don’t want to fork it.

Are there any reserves for new open source library dependencies in the autotools project?
Are there any reserves in general with a view of our planed process?
Does this process fit to your normal code contribution guidelines?
Do you see any better options for a code contribution?


Thank you for your patience
Best Regards

Steffen Kothe


Christ Electronic Systems GmbH
http://www.christ-es.com/

Geschäftsführer: Franz Reichle
Hauptsitz: Alpenstraße 34, 87700 Memmingen
Amtsgericht Memmingen HRB 9102

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