Re: USB IEEE1284 gadgets and ppdev

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:27:57PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:51:20PM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can tell there are only two USB drivers for USB-to-IEEE1284 
> > devices - USS720 for the USS720 device, and usblp for everything else. 
> > Is usblp supposed to hook into ppdev? Is there some other device driver 
> > I missed?
> 
> Not into ppdev; into parport.  It ought to use
> parport_register_port. (It doesn't, currently.)

I understand that the uss720 driver should register with parport, as it
is a USB to parallel port adapter, but the usblp driver should not, as
it is just a pass-through to a printer.  Do you see any advantage to
having usblp registering with parport?

thanks,

greg k-h