On Jun 7, Seth Galitzer transmitted in part:
upsrw reports ups.id is a string, which could be useful if I could match
against it, but if I read your statement correctly, I cannot.
Matching on USB bus number would not be optimal, since this changes even when
a device is unplugged and replugged along with in between system boots. So
I'd have to look them all up and reconfigure ups.conf with every reboot.
Doable, but a royal pain to maintain.
Even worse, some UPS USB chips reconnect on every self test, for example
APC (although APC at least has a proper serial number).
And if you think dealing with serial free UPSes is bad, we had some
printers with no serial number. Interesting user interface ("I see
a new USB printer. What printer did you just plugin or turn on?")
After a few years, we laid down the law: we do not support USB devices
with no serial number (they are pretty much only useful on a single user
system).
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