[Nut-upsuser] [Bug 209001] [NEW] Nut no longer functions with belkin usb avr

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:59:34 +0400, Arjen de Korte  
<nut+users at de-korte.org> wrote:

>> so there are chances that this has been backported in Testing /
>> 2.2.2-pre1 (released today).
>
> No, it hasn't been backported as far as I can see, so this is something
> that needs to be done for nut-2.2.2-pre2. Since we have active  
> maintainers
> for this driver, I didn't do this myself.
>
>> Can you (the bug reporters) grab this, call configure as per the
>> packaging/debian/rules, make and test from the build dir?
>
> That probably won't help (yet).
>
> Best regards, Arjen
>

We currently have a real mess with a 3 kinds of "adiler" subdriver
behaving differently (old agiler not currently in the trunk, agiler
and phoenix). I'm not really sure at the moment that phoenix subdriver
works exactly the same as an old agiler one.

AFAIK there is actually no active maintainer for all these subdrivers.
Personally I am maintaining common parts of megatec_usb and the krauler
subdriver. I don't want to touch "agiler" subdrivers at all because
(a) I don't have an appropriate UPS
(b) I don't know of a developer willing to contribute which has and whom
     I can send patches to (except for Carlos but he was completely
     satisfied with serial interface as far as I remember :) )
(c) I don't have time and will to develop without the real hardware only
     by sending patches to testers.

Maybe I'll overcome the first reason some time :)

IMHO we should resurrect the old agiler subdriver and ask some people
with these UPSes to test all the 3 subdrivers. Then we'll know which
subdriver supports which UPS. And then freeze them until they get a
maintainer.

I'm really busy at the moment with my university degree work and my job
so I just don't have time for this.

-- 
   Alexander