Bug#375395: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#375395: cupsys: Printer stopped working after upgrade

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

On Jun 28, Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> <rleigh> Kamion: Don't other parport users get different device nodes and names?  I'll check.
Yes, some doorstop architectures do. Look at the aliases in the
module-init-tools source package.

> <Kamion> I also disagree with Henrik; if it's possible for discover to autodetect a printer (which would surprise me, but maybe it is), then it's surely also possible to teach the kernel to do so, and then the kernel could tell udev about it
> <Kamion> hardware detection belongs in the kernel
I fully agree with this. discover is already not needed in many cases,
so let's not add more functions to it.
Until the kernel will properly support detection of high level printer
drivers, the correct solution is to work around it with a modprobe alias:

> <Kamion> 'install parport /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install parport $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe lp; :; }' <- better still

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ciao,
Marco

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