[cups-devel] Hacking USB uris to make them more predictable

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> probably something like usb://{vendor_id}/{product_id}?serial={serial}.

> Is this a terrible idea for some reason that I'm not seeing?  Are there
> subtle dependencies on the existing URI scheme of which I may not be
> aware?  Happy to get any feedback at all on this.

Let's imagine you have a couple of chinese noname printers, having same vid/
pid, and both has 0000000 as serial (just like it is common case for android 
smartphones).

How would you differ which exactly printer do you want to call with your URI 
scheme? :)

// So, in my opinion, it should, at least, also contain usb bus info (bus ID 
and device-on-bus ID).