https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673845
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673845#c110
Johannes Meixner changed:
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Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO
Found By|--- |Community User
InfoProvider| |ro@suse.com
--- Comment #110 from Johannes Meixner 2012-05-11 09:07:15 UTC ---
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$ osc maintainer openSUSE:Factory aaa_base
bugowner of Base:System/aaa_base :
oertel
maintainer of Base:System/aaa_base :
oertel, philipsb
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A summary (as far as I understand it):
Since openSUSE 11.4 the lp kernel module is no longer loaded
automatically and the most important consequence is that
therefore printing to a printer at the parallel port
does no longer work out-of-the box.
The reason is - as far as I know - that up to openSUSE 11.3
the package udev provided the files /lib/udev/devices/lp[0123]
so that udev created the device nodes /dev/lp[0123] and when
a process opens /dev/lp[0123] the lp kernel module is loaded.
As far as I know since openSUSE 11.4 udev does no longer
provide the files /lib/udev/devices/lp[0123] so that there
is no longer /dev/lp[0123]. I don't know the resoning behind
why udev does no longer provide /lib/udev/devices/lp[0123].
Now we have the separated package parallel-printer-support
that provides /lib/udev/devices/lp[0123] which works o.k.
But we wonder if separated packages are really the best solution
to provide support for traditional legacy device nodes.
Perhaps it would be better if the package aaa_base provides
/lib/udev/devices/... for all traditional legacy device nodes
so that on any system the traditional legacy devices "just work"
out of the box.
Rudi,
what do you think about it?
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