initial support for video devices and printer ports

[Kristof Vansant]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:25, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 02:24 +0200, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:59, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Shouldn't a printer be a subdevice of the "printer_port" and not merged
> > > into it? 
> > > 
> > It is possible to have a parallel scanner and printer on one parallel
> > port if I'm not mistaking.
> > So printer should be a subdevice of the printer_port! and the scanner
> > too.
> 
> Yes, there a multi-function devices with a scanner and a printer in the
> same box too. Don't know how the actual device is to be selected on the
> parport, but they are connected at the same time to the same port.
> 
> Today we see such kind of devices all connected through USB, but I still
> think the recognized printer should be a child of the parport and not
> merged into the interface.

ah I thought that child == subdevice :) so yes, best is to have it as
child

> 
> Kay
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