On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
| On Monday 13 January 2003 05:30, you wrote:
| > Hi Alex,
| >
| > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
| > | After looking at cups (1.1.18) backend/usb.c and the kernel's
| > | (2.4.19-gentoo-r10) drivers/usb/printer.c I've found some different
| > | interpretations of the LP_* flags from linux/lp.h
| > |
| > | While the kernel seems to use the 8255 status port definitions, which
| > | use (amongst others) the flags,
| > |
| > | #define LP_PSELECD 0x10 /* unchanged input, active high */
| > | #define LP_PERRORP 0x08 /* unchanged input, active low */
| > |
| > | the same bits are defined by POSIX guidelines a few lines above in
| > | linux/lp.h:
| > |
| > | #define LP_OFFL 0x0008
| > | #define LP_NOPA 0x0010
| >
| > Does anyone know where I can find these POSIX guidelines?
| > I tried SUSv3 but didn't see them there.
| > I'm not sure if the comment about POSIX guidelines is referring
| > only to the LP* and lp* namespace (prefixes) or to the bit
| > definitions also.
| >
| > Are you saying that there are apps that depend on the POSIX bit
| > definitions?
| >
| Get cups (I'm using 1.1.18), see backend/usb.c and have a look at the piece
| of code
Well, thanks for posting it...
| #ifdef __linux
| /*
| * Show the printer status before we send the file; normally, we'd
| * do this while we write data to the printer, however at least some
| * Linux kernels have buggy USB drivers which don't like to be
| * queried while sending data to the printer...
| */
|
| if (ioctl(fd, LPGETSTATUS, &status) == 0)
| {
| fprintf(stderr, "DEBUG: LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of
| %02X...\n", status);
|
| if (status & LP_NOPA)
| fputs("WARNING: Media tray empty!\n", stderr);
| else if (status & LP_ERR)
| fputs("WARNING: Printer fault!\n", stderr);
| else if (status & LP_OFFL)
| fputs("WARNING: Printer off-line.\n", stderr);
| }
| #endif /* __linux */
|
| LP_NOPA, LP_ERR and LP_OFFL are from the POSIX-Part.
and they are the wrong bits to be testing. LPGETSTATUS doesn't return
POSIX-bits for LP status AFAI can see, in drivers/char/lp.c or in
drivers/usb/printer.c. It returns 8255-style status bits.
I wouldn't be surprised to find some part of the kernel returning
POSIX LP-status bits and another part returning 8255-status bits,
but I don't see that here. I see them returning only 8255-status bits
and cups looking for the other.
Is there some reason that cups isn't just testing for 8255-style
status bits instead of the POSIX style?
Go ahead, enlighten me.
| > | Obviously, this leads the cups usb-backend to incorrectly report an
| > | empty media tray when the printer is online, idle and has enough paper.
| > |
| > | This doesn't seem to be something serious, its just a wrong message in
| > | cups log-file.
| >
| > The (Linux 2.4.20) kernel drivers/char/lp.c and drivers/usb/printer.c
| > modules use the 8255 parallel port definitions to read/test the status
| > port. This matches the USB printer spec (I'm looking at the USB
| > v1.1 printer spec).
| > USB & parport then return that 8-bit value to userspace via an
| > ioctl (LPGETSTATUS). Is CUPS using a different ioctl, possibly
| > LPGETFLAGS?
| >
|
| See the code piece above - its using LPGETSTATUS
|
| > | PS: Since two different specifications are mixed up, this problem could
| > | also be a kernel problem.
| >
| > Um, it would have been a good thing if a "standard" interface were used
| > for this instead of one that just matches some device's registers,
| > as long as the standard interface weren't severe overkill.
|
| I agree.
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