On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:18AM -0500, David Milburn wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:15:57PM -0500, David Milburn wrote: > >>Has anyone considered adding support to the USB Printer > >>driver that would allow multiple processes to open the > >>printer device, one able to write to the device and one > >>able to check status of the printer device? > > > >Why is this needed? > > For a custom application that could monitor printer status - > out of paper, jam, etc.
But the parallel port printer driver doesn't allow this either, right? And isn't that what the printer daemon's job is for? > >What kind of reset? A printer reset, or a USB device reset? > > Printer reset. How would it do that within the driver? Don't all printers reset themselves in different ways? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
