[Nut-upsuser] Multiple ups/Belkin 1500VA no serial number

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/6/6 Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org <nut%2Busers at de-korte.org>>:

> >> > Am I missing something in the logic, or do I just have an unusual
> >> case?
> >> Neither. These devices are just not suitable for use with NUT as long as
> >> the libusb library doesn't expose the physical ports the UPS is attached
> >> to.
> > that will be fixed with the new libusb 1.0 project.
> > I haven't looked at it for sometime, but the API should not be far from
> > stable.
>
> In the long run, this will solve the problem, but as long as libusb-1.0 is
> not included in the major distrubutions you'll be limited to just one of
> these devices per USB root device.


indeed. that wasn't crystal clear in my remark.


> It also requires us to rewrite some
> stuff, since the library is incompatible with libusb-0.1.
>

iirc, a transition compat layer is scheduled.
but it's sure that we'll have to use some #ifdef to switch between the old
and new libusb NUT code...

Arnaud
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