Nut upsuser - Jul 2012 - bcmxcp_usb: multiple UPS

I can't find a way to configure bcmxcp_usb to communicate with 2 UPS units. 
Maybe more simply, I can't find a way to tell the driver to only talk to one
of the units on the bus.  That is, I cannot find that the driver configuration
file supports "serial =" or "bus = " or other such
discriminators that other drivers do (usb_apc, etc.).  So, I can't assign
one Eaton UPS to "[ups1]" and another to "[ups2]".

This is all against NUT 2.4.3, but the 2.6.4 code doesn't seem to have those
concepts, either.  I guess even confirmation that it cannot be configured to
work would be helpful at this point, but I still hope I am missing something. 
Thank you for considering it.

Regards,

Adam Welch
Buffalo Technology, USA
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Hi Adam,

2012/7/19 Adam Welch <adamw at buffalotech.com>
>  I can?t find a way to configure bcmxcp_usb to communicate with 2 UPS
> units.  Maybe more simply, I can?t find a way to tell the driver to only
> talk to one of the units on the bus.  That is, I cannot find that the
> driver configuration file supports ?serial =? or ?bus = ? or other such
> discriminators that other drivers do (usb_apc, etc.).  So, I can?t assign
> one Eaton UPS to ?[ups1]? and another to ?[ups2]?.****
>
> ** **
>
> This is all against NUT 2.4.3, but the 2.6.4 code doesn?t seem to have
> those concepts, either.  I guess even confirmation that it cannot be
> configured to work would be helpful at this point, but I still hope I am
> missing something.  Thank you for considering it.****
>
sadly, this is part of the missing things in this driver.
As told a few days ago, and soon again in the 2.8.0 roadmap announce, I've
planned to rewrite this driver and fix this kind of remaining issues. If
this is a blocking point on your side, I may prioritize this... just let me
know.

Adam Welch
>
> Buffalo Technology, USA****
>
you're working at Buffalo!? interesting, since I wanted to contact you
about integrating NUT in your NAS range...
would you be open to such discussion?

cheers,
Arnaud
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Linux / Unix / Opensource Engineering Expert - Eaton -
http://opensource.eaton.com
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org
Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.fr
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