Re: 1284 bidirectional printer port driver?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:43:55 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> A few weeks ago someone sent out an announcement that they were working
> on a 1284 bidrectional parallel port driver. Could someone resend that
> to me, please?
>
> There's a student in my department whose thesis depends on being able to
> read printer status out from a HP printer. Thanks!!

i've picked this URL up in linux-kernel recently:

Linux Parallel Port Sharing Project
http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html

i'm not sure but it seems these patches do the status-read thing too?

-- mingo