On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Charles Lepple wrote: > > We can mark the driver as "experimental" and in the man page, we can document > that the driver has been in production, but based on an older version of the > rest of the source tree. > > An ideal driver would actually go through a full QA-style regression test, but > especially for the larger UPSes, this often isn't practical.
Given the age of the fortress protocol, and that new UPSes don't use it anymore, the driver is more of a "special interest" for parties that still have a bunch of them in production (they are rugged, reliable, and the batteries are still made). -- Stuart D. Gathman <stu...@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev