Subject: Re: UPS with USB support?
To: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20050720@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/21/2005 09:01:22
I'll finally fix the ugen driver so you don't have to patch
the hud driver any more. It's something I've wanted to
do for a long time.
-- Lennart
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>>Thanks. Any particular problem compiling it under NetBSD? The pkgsrc
>>version is 3.8.6nb4; you seem to be running 3.11.3, and the
>>documentation with the package says that USB support is only in 3.9.4
>>or later.
>
>
> I think I started with pkgsrc but jumped to their cvs version when
> things didn't work right.
>
> Nathan's post did remind me that I had to put a two-line hack into the
> usb-uhid driver to tell uhid to keep its grubby fingers off of the
> UPS. I don't think any of the bsd's I submitted that patch to bought
> off on it. It might be good to put this into the kernel with a "this
> is a really rude hack and needs to by fixed" type note. (More correct
> code would tried harder to see if the device was a UPS instead of
> jumping to conclusions from the vendor name. Unfortunately the fact
> that it is a ups didn't seem to be available at probe time.)
>
> -wolfgang