Re: what binds to port
On Mon 02 Aug 2021 at 17:35:46 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Brian (12021-08-02):
> > Helpful remarks, but I did not think printers used kernel drivers.
>
> AFAIR, USB printers appear as a special device, unlike generic USB
> devices, that makes one layer of drivers, but then you need an userland
> driver, probably GhostScript, to talk the proper language to that
> device, and that makes a second layer of drivers.
My thinking is that a USB printer uses libusb, just as a scanner does.
No kernel driver involved. The printer drivers are "internal" to CUPS.
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Brian.
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