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

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Alex,

2008/4/3, Alexander I. Gordeev <lasaine at lvk.cs.msu.su>:
> 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.

thanks for these info, and good luck for your degree.
I just saw that Carlos has taken over, so there is no problem.

Arnaud
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