[cups.general] http://cups.org/str.php?L2535
Tim Waugh
twaugh at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 08:37:26 PDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 08:22 -0700, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> The problem we had with getting the device ID from /proc is that
> it was usually wrong. That file only reflects the device ID at
> boot time, making it useless and generally inaccurate. We had a
> long string of bugs reported from customers on this in the past, and
> concluded that using the autoprobe file was the wrong way to go.
I don't think parallel port printers are hot-pluggable, technically. At
least, it may not be safe to do so.
> Your patch looks like it should support "live" reading of the device
> ID, which is really what we need. If you can file a bug report with
> the patch attached, I'll be happy to clean up the patch and get it
> into 1.3 and 1.4.
Yes, it fetches a live Device ID. I'll file a report when I get a
moment to.
Tim.
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