[hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 01:54, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The recommended driver on linuxprinting.org is the one which makes the 
> printer working best, it usually gives the highest output quality. As 
> only free drivers are considered and as printer drivers are simply 
> filters to convert PostScript or a standard bitmap image format to the 
> printer's native language (no kernel drivers or so) they should work the 
> same way on all systems and so the recommended one stays the same on 
> GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,

Thanks for this clarification Till - I hadn't realized that printer
driver's were so simple. This is the perfect example then, of a
kernel-neutral "driver".

I assume there must also be a dependency on lower level "traditional
kernel driver"s such as serial/ parallel interface driver, firewire or
USB driver, etc - and that these are not particularly kernel-agnostic :)

>  ... But a driver recommendation can also 
> depend on other things (best output quality, fastest, most user-settable 
> options, ...), so the comment text should contain additional info if 
> there are also other recommended drivers and why they are recommended. 
> Having one especially recommended driver in a database field makes 
> automated setup processes possible, so that even users who do not know 
> what drivers are, get there printers or other hardware working.

Thanks for that.

cheers
zen