Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13 Feb 2001 14:18:43 -0800 > The reason I asked about inclusion is that printing is one of the areas > that Linux seems to struggle in terms of usability and I thought perhaps > it would make sense to modular print drivers in the kernel

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
Maybe I'm missing your point, but why would it go into the kernel tree ? This is all stuff that gets done in userland under Linux. The Omni drivers plugin with Ghostscript and generate output appropriate to the printer. There's no kernel relevance here. Tim On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:42:27PM

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miles Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/ Considering it's a ghostscript driver, I severely doubt it. :) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miles Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/ Considering it's a ghostscript driver, I severely doubt it. :) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
Maybe I'm missing your point, but why would it go into the kernel tree ? This is all stuff that gets done in userland under Linux. The Omni drivers plugin with Ghostscript and generate output appropriate to the printer. There's no kernel relevance here. Tim On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:42:27PM

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13 Feb 2001 14:18:43 -0800 The reason I asked about inclusion is that printing is one of the areas that Linux seems to struggle in terms of usability and I thought perhaps it would make sense to modular print drivers in the kernel