Nut upsdev - Sep 2006 - newhidups and threads (was: suse linux and nut)

[moving to upsdev as it's now off topic for upsusers]

2006/8/30, Peter Selinger <selinger@mathstat.dal.ca>:
[snip]
> > the threaded method would allow, with some sub-drv config, to launch
> > the polling thread and/or the interrupt thread. Either feeding the
> > core is not important since the core wouldn't care about that.
>
> I think is may make sense to have a thread for listening on the
> interrupt pipeline, to overcome the problem with synchronous
> communication. But why would you want a thread for features? These
> have to be polled at regular intervals anyway, so this can still be
> done from upsdrv_updateinfo.
that was simply to have a common data processing with 2 feeders, and
to core as the reader/interpreter.
But both methods are good, and I haven't yet had time to investigate
more this problem.

Arnaud
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