On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:40:31PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > What do you mean with the term "suck"? No matter how good app you write it > always breaks the basic principle - that hw virtualization should be done by > the kernel and not some kind of userland app. > So, you want to integrate printer queueing and PostScript interpretation in a kernel to have some kind of perfectly virtualized /dev/printer that eats PS or PCL depending on what ioctls you call and munges the data to whatever the particular printer wants? Why do it in userland when you can do it in the kernel!
-- Jussi Peltola
