From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Havoc Pennington Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:30:06 +0000 Subject: Re: communicating with user login sessions Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 04:45:11PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > But if I plug a printer in to my computer, I want it to "hotplug" > so that it's automatically hooked into the printing system and > appears in the next printer selection dialog I pop up. (And > some business customers will demand centralized policy hooks, > so printer sharing is appropriately controlled.) Printers and XFree86 both introduce the idea that some drivers are in userspace. Some "drivers" are even network connections to remote printers... A device abstraction library would need to think through how to present this to the desktop/application layer. Havoc ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel