On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 21:17 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> If you update the driver and update the PPDs of the existing queues
> (automatically done by Gutenprint and also by all drivers in Ubuntu and
> by all drivers from OpenPrinting) the replacement of the PPD makes the
> device ID injected b
Till Kamppeter [2009-07-13 18:34 +0200]:
> The data written into the HAL DB is the printer's device ID. This
> way it is available at the printer disconnection event, when it
> cannot get queried any more from the printer. So we need another
> place to store this data.
I think that will actually w
Hello Tim,
Tim Waugh [2009-07-13 15:52 +0100]:
> > I see. So we can basically keep the structure of hal_lpadmin to become
> > cups_admin (except that this should fork into the background to avoid
> > stalling udev processing), and just replace the hal specific
> > information retrieval with some l
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:45 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> That's sort of what I was asking. :-)
>
> Alternatively, if there is access to this information using simple shell
> utilities or something, that would also work.
Actually all we need is the IEEE 1284 Device ID.
I'll try to look at adding the
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 18:34 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Are there no Python bindings for libudev?
That's sort of what I was asking. :-)
Alternatively, if there is access to this information using simple shell
utilities or something, that would also work.
> The data written into the HAL DB is
