[open-beos-printing] Re: PnP Printers

>Printers auto-detection could be done only on busses which include a 
>device description / inquiry protocol.
>AFAIK, USB printers only today.

Yep, USB should be able to do it. However, I think we need to determine 
how USB works on BeOS, and how it will work on OpenBeOS :)

>PrintKit team members, maybe we should include this request in our 
>future printing architecture design discussion=3D3F

I think, looking at the current driver architecture, it would be pretty 
difficult, as rescanning busses works by looking at the kernel drivers, 
and for printers, there is no kernel driver :( However, when USB gets 
done for OpenBeOS, we can take this up again and see how it works. 
Maybe I could simply write a kernel driver which will try to find any 
devices that there are printer addons for.....

Any other ideas=3F

Regards,

Ithamar.

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