From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB IEEE1284 gadgets and ppdev
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:09:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925150915.GM9457@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020925150129.GC30339@kroah.com>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:01:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> I understand that the uss720 driver should register with parport, as
> it is a USB to parallel port adapter, but the usblp driver should
> not, as it is just a pass-through to a printer. Do you see any
> advantage to having usblp registering with parport?
Well, it would mean that ppdev could use it. I understand that only a
few functions of a normal parallel port could be implemented (read,
write, get status).
Alternatively I suppose I could get libieee1284 to grok /dev/usb/lp*.
Steve---would that solve the problem that you're running into?
Tim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 15:22 USB IEEE1284 gadgets and ppdev Steve Underwood
2002-09-24 16:21 ` Tim Waugh
2002-09-25 13:51 ` Steve Underwood
2002-09-25 14:27 ` Tim Waugh
2002-09-25 15:01 ` Greg KH
2002-09-25 15:09 ` Tim Waugh [this message]
2002-10-01 15:35 ` Steve Underwood
2002-10-01 16:23 ` Tim Waugh
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