Re: Why does USB backend 'Always write USB printer defs, with unknown for devices that are not connected.' ?

jeremy.shaw-77kvfFC2TplBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had a question about this patch:
>
> http://cvs.easysw.com/cvsweb.cgi/cups/backend/usb.c.diff?r1=1.19&r2=1.20
>
> Specifically this change:
>
> "Always write USB printer defs, with unknown for devices that are
> not connected."
>
> Does anyone know why this was done?
> ...

Yes.

Without this, any USB printer that was connected after cupsd was
started would not be accessible.

If you can get the USB hotplug stuff to work under Linux (initially,
to send the HUP signal to cupsd, but in the future we'll be providing
a utility for sending add/delete commands to the scheduler)

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