[Nut-upsdev] Powercom BNT USB fix needs testing

Stuart Henderson stu.lists at spacehopper.org
Wed Jul 3 14:53:59 BST 2024


On 2024-07-02, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> Gentle bump :)
>
> If there's anyone with a Powercom USB UPS and preferably a non-x86 computer
> to build and test a NUT driver on (to confirm the original problem and the
> fix), that would be very helpful :)

>>   Per https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pull/2480 there seems to
>> have been a byte-order bug in usbhid-ups subdriver for Powercom that
>> precluded it from shutdowns.
>>
>>   I am not fully certain if the problem (or the fix) are
>> endianness-dependent, so would welcome testing of that PR from various
>> platforms (x86, arm, ...)

I don't have one of those UPS, or a big-endian machine handy. Nearly
all current OS run ARM as little-endian, this will really want something
like sparc or powerpc to test on (or some MIPS but not others).

It could also be that the vendor changed something between devices or
firmware versions...





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