Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:43:28PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Greg KH: > > > >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 i

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-09 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Greg KH: > > >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? Here's the reset ioctl. Regards O

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:26:53AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Greg KH: > > > >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 i

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-08 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Greg KH: > > >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

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-08 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Greg KH: > > >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? No, the printer class definition includes a common soft re

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-08 Thread Greg KH
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 wr

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-08 Thread David Milburn
Hi Greg, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:15:57PM -0500, David Milburn wrote: Hello, 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 d

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:15:57PM -0500, David Milburn wrote: > > Hello, > > 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? W

[linux-usb-devel] USB Printer driver

2004-06-07 Thread David Milburn
Hello, 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? Also, has anyone considered adding ioctl support to allow a reset to be initiated