On Thursday 08 March 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >Belkin is being non-responsive to requests for updated drivers for their >line of UPS's, all of which now have a USB port which is the Belkin >recommended way to talk to these things. > >Unforch, the belkin supplied *nix stuff was last compiled on an rh5.2 >machine using gcc-2.7.2, so there has been some bitrot. > >I believe the problem to be that when their version of upsd is trying to >open the /dev/name its given, it is assuming and hard coded to do the >ioctl's to set the ports speed in baudrate, width of word, parity etc. > >Getting failure messages for that, it retrys the open until it has 1024 >links to /dev/hiddev0 according to an lsof|grep hiddev0, all of which >presumably have failed so it never actually opens the /dev/hiddev0 port >in r/w mode successfully. > >I can, from a shell, 'cat' the data from this port, its not very fast >taking about 8-10 seconds to output all the integers or bytes to >constitute a complete screen update when translated by the gui into >sensible data. > >My proposal, and I'll see if I can make a patch, is to add to the > hiddev.c code, stubs for these otherwise useless functions that do > nothing but return a 0 indicating success so that these legacy drivers > can make use of a port whose data is just fine but fails these > configuration things that don't mean squat to hiddev anyway. > >Would this effort at making legacy drivers who think they are >using /dev/ttySx, work with /dev/hiddev constitute an acceptable reason >for such a patch to hiddev.c?
Its been about a day now, and no one has commented. Am I an idiot or ?? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: What do you have when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand? A: Not enough sand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
