LOG

- Corrected a mayor bug in test_status_bits(): here we change the values
  inside UPSINFO but we don't lock/unlock and this caused these values
  to get lost at the next read_andlock_shmarea (where we do memcpy from the
  shared area overwriting the local copy). Now do read/write_andlock_shmarea
  around the function.
- Selftest may return "NA and get Status may return "SM". These errors
  were not handled causing apcupsd unpredictable behavior. Now in case
  it happens, we retry up to 5 times to get the correct values from firmware.
- Written generic code for attaching the drivers. New config directives for
  generic UPS types (backward compatibility for old specific types).
- Now after attempting to cancel a shutdown -h, force a shutdown -r
- Commented out the SelfTest code into the apcsmart as now we use a driver
  entry point from apcaction.
- Added Kern's patch for depend and debug levels.
- Added entry points to allow for core calls to particular driver functions.
- Applyed Kern's patch:
    .removal of unused var in kill_power
    .compiled driver list on not-present driver
    .core dump solved, patch modified by me so that ups->driver checks are
     inserted in all preprocessor macros
    .apcsmart and dumb drivers enabled by default, usb driver disabled by
     default (slightly modified form of Kern's patch).
    .install-symlinks.sh must not exit with exit code 1 if distribution is
     not handled.
- Removed the WARNING msg about eeprom programming (kept the compiler warning).
- Added device entry point for specific device commands called from inside the
  core apcupsd.
- Added pre-compiler macros for hiding the internal device calls.
- Started the drivers/ project
- Moved ups-specific code in drivers/
- All the tricky code is commented with the C pre-processor #warning directive
  so that at compile time the positions where the code needs to be
  reimplemented differently are well defined and visible. This is dependent on
  GNU gcc but as we are developing the code it seems to be a minor issue. On
  the way, these warnings will disappear.
- Glued everything together, but almost all the code is the old code splitted:
  it compiles and runs.
- linux-usb driver does not compile on plain linux kernel (patches are on the
  road from Alan Cox.
- Fixed a major bug in drivers/apcsmart/smart.c:getline() (this bug may also
  be present in previous versions of apcupsd). This bug caused very high
  delays in UPS state change notifications to the core.
- I could not test the USB driver as I don't own an USB UPS.
- smart UPS is working (no changes to the configuration file) at least at the
  point where it detects power failures.
- USB driver compiles.
- Moved test_status_bits() in the core apcupsd.
- Reorganized the developers documentation inside an HTML manual. Needs
  editing as this manual was written for the retired 4.x code (but is still
  current for many of its parts).
- Removed check_serial() and read_dumb_ups(), substituting the code with
  drivers code.
- Removed the tmp trick inside drivers for library build. Now it builds and
  check dependancies correctly.

NOTES

The drivers project is built on a number of rules:

1. Drivers must be re-entrant
2. A single driver can drive more than one connected UPS
3. A single UPSINFO structure must be driven by one single UPS driver
4. Glue between UPSINFO and DRIVER structures is a pointer inside the UPSINFO
   structure
5. Any DRIVER function must return a value or not return at all (bail out).
   This rule is transitory as with time all the functions will return even
   on error and bailing out will be done by the core code. Right now what
   is preferred is a simple move of the code from core code to drivers.

IMPLEMENTATION choices

- Entry points were added: they are needed to keep the old functionality but
  they will go away as soon as we reduce the coupling between drivers and
  core.
- Always, when accessing ups->driver, a NULL ptr check is done.
- A special entry point in the driver has been implemented for reaching
  special functions inside the driver from the core apcupsd.
- oldtio is inside UPSINFO
- lock files are created after the open() call.
- signals are set up after the lock file has been created.
- moved all the apc_chat code from apcaction.c to drivers/apcsmart/*
- removed the insane use of variables to store TIOCM_* bit values BUT THIS
  HAS TO BE TESTED. I did everything to make sure it still works.
- moved ups_connected inside the UPSINFO as this is something specific to the
  driver.
- The new DRIVERS layer will add three keywords to the UPSTYPE variable:
  [ dumb | apcsmart | usb ]
  Now basing on the UPSTYPE, the correct driver is attached. But in the future
  the idea is to have only these three driver labels, translating the old ones
  for backward compatibility to the new keywords.
- In future we will turn all the library builds into libtool compilation.
  This will allow better library handling and as a side effect, will allow to
  compile shared libraries.