[Mageia-dev] usb printers

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Mon Apr 2 22:02:19 CEST 2012


Am 02.04.2012 21:20, schrieb zezinho:
> Em 02-04-2012 20:50, David W. Hodgins escreveu:
>> Note that it is needed for some printers
>> so if blacklisting by default is enabled, that should at least be
>> pointed out in a README.urpmi file, so users of those printers will
>> know how to un-blacklist it.
>>
> Blacklisting only prevents automatic load of the module AFAIK. So a simple
> modprobe still works for printers needing it.
>
> The problem is that no list exists of printers that need it...
>
FWIW i've already brought the blacklisting issue up
at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4279#c7
usblp is needed at least for most canon and some
samsung printers, a few kyoceras and for all usb-parallel
converter. Everybody who uses something like that,
will not be able to set up their printer from MCC, until
they un-blacklist usblp.

And from where would they know? A README.urpmi will
not be displayed for initial Mageia installations, so people
doing a fresh mga2 install will not even notice this change.
So it also has to be put in release notes, if blacklisted.



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