From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:59:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.
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Here are a couple of resources where we might be able to
find people to connect up with regarding how to get printing
working well in a hotplug environment:

http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing
http://www.linuxprinting.org/summit.html

David Brownell wrote:
> 
> Right now there's no printer hotplugging support ... nothing
> calls out to userland "/dev/usb/lp0 was just born, have a cigar!".
> 
> In fact I'm unclear how much the different sorts of printer
> (USB, parallel, network, ...) all get autoconfigured.  Is there
> anyone working on putting together all those answers?
> 
> - Dave
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Neukum" <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
> To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: "Vojtech Pavlik" <vojtech@suse.cz>; "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>;
> <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.
> 
> > On Mittwoch,  7. Februar 2001 11:30, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de said:
> > > >  will leave you with lp1 as your printer name If you reverse steps 2
> > > > and 3 you get lp0 as printer name.
> > >
> > > That doesn't have to be a problem. If your script is editing printcap and
> > > inserting the device name it's given in the entry for the new printer, with
> > > whatever queue name(s) are configured elsewhere, why does it matter?
> >
> > If you were given that name. For USB at least you get an usbdevfs name at
> > best.
> >
> > Regards
> > Oliver
> >
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