Hi,
I couldn't get openusb to make successfully but the good news is that
Solaris seems to include openusb in the package repository and I have now
installed it: ./usr/lib/libopenusb.so.0.0.1
Any idea how i can get NUT to build against this libopenusb which has been
installed by Solaris?
Regards,
Richard
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 4:20 AM Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2015, at 10:45 PM, Richard Flint <richard.flint at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Apologies for the many replies. I have found this documentation:
> http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ugen+7
>
> (I am using the ugen driver).
>
>
> Right, AFAIK ugen is the kernel driver that libusb and openusb talk to
> (/dev/usb/*). Updated diagram:
>
> upsc --- upsd --- nutdrv_qx --- libusb -+- ugen driver --- Solaris kernel
> --- UPS
>
> Richard
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:34 AM Richard Flint <richard.flint at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to admit this sounds like it could screw up the system if not
done
>> right - particularly because the solaris packaging system is unlikely
to
>> allow me to remove the libusb package if many things are dependent on
it.
>>
>> Are there any other options - e.g. doing something with the libusb that
>> ships with solaris - are we sure it doesn't support timeouts?
>>
>
> Not entirely certain that we can't do more with the system libusb. NUT
> passes timeouts in milliseconds. If the NUT driver blocks for more than 5
> seconds on the read (I see both 1000 and 5000 ms in various places in the
> code), then libusb isn't honoring that timeout. Without documentation
or
> the source code, I wouldn't know what else is needed to make the
timeouts
> work.
>
> It might be possible to do the following:
>
> ? install openusb into an alternate directory (e.g. $HOME/local)
> ? set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to anything that doesn't contain the system
libusb.pc
> ? put $HOME/local/bin (or wherever openusb-config gets installed) at the
> front of the $PATH, and symlink openusb-config to libusb-config
> ? reconfigure NUT
>
> By installing into $HOME/local (not as root), you can be certain you are
> not overwriting the system libusb.
>
> Unfortunately, openusb doesn't have a *.pc file, otherwise the
> installation process would be a lot simpler.
>
> I think I found some code relating to it here:
>>
>>
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland/sources/gate/show/components/libusb/wrapper/src
>>
>
> Unfortunately, that wrapper code is calling into a platform-specific
> library which doesn't seem to be posted there. (The purpose seems to be
> abstracting away the differences between Solaris and Sun Ray systems.)
> Timeouts are passed straight through, but that just moves the question down
> a layer into that Solaris-specific libusb plugin.
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:10 AM Charles Lepple <clepple at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 4, 2015, at 9:48 PM, Richard Flint <richard.flint at
gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Again, apologies for my ignorance - are you suggesting that if the
NUT
>>> application was built against openusb this would probably be fixed?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, that is my current theory. It's a little complicated in
practice -
>>> openusb has a different API than libusb-0.1.x, but it supposedly
includes a
>>> compatibility layer.
>>>
>>> If openusb works, I would not expect it to wait for more than 1 or
5
>>> seconds when reading the reply.
>>>
>>> If so I'm happy to give this a try - any idea how can I tell
NUT to
>>> build against openusb instead of libusb?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure exactly, but to be safe, I'd make an extra backup of
wherever
>>> libusb is installed - my concern is that other things might be
using
>>> libusb, and openusb could interfere. Ideally, openusb is a strict
superset
>>> of libusb, but I haven't used it myself.
>>>
>>> openusb does seem to use the same library name as libusb, so if
libusb
>>> was installed by a package, you might want to uninstall libusb
first to
>>> avoid conflicts.
>>>
>>> NUT uses either the generic pkg-config tool or a libusb-config
binary to
>>> find the USB library. openusb seems to install an openusb-config
file which
>>> could be symlinked to libusb-config in /usr/local/bin (once the
original
>>> libusb package is out of the way). At that point, you can re-run
the NUT
>>> ./configure script, and it should list the openusb version number
(1.1.11?)
>>> instead of 0.1.7.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Charles Lepple
>>> clepple at gmail
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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