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

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

[Miles Lane]

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/

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

[Bill Nottingham]

Miles Lane (miles@megapathdsl.net) said: 
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/

Considering it's a ghostscript driver, I severely doubt it. :)

Bill

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

[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 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/
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Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

[Miles Lane]

Whoops.

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 tree.  Since 
the OMNI driver is ghostscript-based, including it in the kernel is
obviously a bogus idea.  Sorry for missing the obvious.

I do wonder if there are no print drivers that would make sense in the
kernel tree.  After all, we have USB device drivers in the tree,
including
scanners, which aren't all that different from printers, are they?

I apologize in advance if I am just being incredibly stupid about this.

    Miles

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

[Timur Tabi]

** Reply to message from Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net> 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 tree.

No, improving printing support is something that the distribution vendors are
supposed to provide.

I think you're under the assumption that this support were to be placed in the
kernel, it would then become ubiquitous.  That may be true, but it's irrelevant.

Instead, what is needed is a sort of "standard" that indicates what every Linux
distribution should have in addition to the kernel.  And that's something that's
being addressed by organization such as the Linux Standard Base
(http://www.linuxbase.org/).  You should ask them about it.


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