On 2016-10-20, lilit-aibolit <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list.
> In recent OpeBSD versions usb devices attached to upd driver.
> This is why apcupsd doesn't detect APC USB devices.
>
> After installing apcupsd there is statement
> how to deal with above situation:
> ...................................................................................................................
> The option with fewest side-effects is to add the following entries to
> the table in /sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c and build a new kernel:
>
> { USB_VENDOR_APC, USB_PRODUCT_APC_UPS, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
> { USB_VENDOR_APC, USB_PRODUCT_APC_UPS5G, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
>
> Alternatively, if you do not use a USB keyboard/mouse, you could simply
> disable the upd and uhid drivers. The following line creates a new kernel
> with the relevant changes:
>
> printf 'disable uhid\ndisable upd\nquit\n' | config -e -o /bsd.no-uhid /bsd
> ...................................................................................................................
> Second option isn't suitable because I have usb keyboard
> and on very rare occasions it's used to fix something locally.
> So regardless of undefined "fewest side-effects" I have to use
> first option and build new kernel. I downloaded and extracted
> src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz into /usr/src. Then I modified usb_quirks.c file
> and added specified lines into usb_quirks[] table.

See the "Build and install a new kernel" step in release(8).

> Then I've read faq5.html and man config but didn't get
> a clue how to build new kernel with applied changed in usb_quirks.c file.
>
> In config man page there is statement that "Most people save their
> backup kernels as //bsd.1/, //bsd.2/, etc." I'd also like to know how to 
> save my current kernel

cp(1)

> and how to switch between new and old ones in case
> of some troubles with new kernel.

at the boot-loader prompt, you can type "boot bsd.1"

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