Hello joão,

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>The UPS I am developing a driver to is able to report several flags for 
>critical hardware conditions, like overheat, overload, inverter failure, 
>output short etc. What should be the correct policy of operation >when such a 
>condition occurs? I think that the an UPS in such a condition is not reliable 
>and therefore a system shutdown should be called. However, the developer's 
>manual and all other drivers I inspected >seem to call the FSD flag only when 
>there is a shutdown already in progress (say, a countdown register is active).

The decision about whether to do a forced shutdown is, I believe, considered a 
local administrator decision.  I would suggest that you should make these 
'events' like low batter or communications failure, and let the admin choose 
what to do about the event.

>
>So far none of my questions were answered, but I hope eventually someone will 
>have some time to spend helping me.

Regards,

Daniel
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