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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:09:15 +0100
From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: USB IEEE1284 gadgets and ppdev
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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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