Greg, We already unload the usblp driver - it isn't compatible with most of the multifunction printers out there today...
On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:56:23PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote: >> Greg, >> >> On Feb 25, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: >>> ... >>> So you want to do this as a userspace library talking directly to the >>> USB device through usbfs/libusb? Or should the kernel provide a basic >>> "pipe-like" functionality to the hardware to make it easier for things >>> to be queued up to the device? >> >> libusb is enough. >> >>> Is there a pointer to the spec somewhere so that I can see what is >>> needed here? >> >> http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs > > In reading the spec, it looks like some kernel code will have to be > written, as the default configuration for the printer device will cause > the usblp driver to bind to the device. Are you thinking that libusb > will just unbind the printer driver and take over from there? Why not > just use the kernel driver to expose another device node and have cups > talk to that? > > thanks, > > greg k-h _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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