usb/79524: printing to Minolta PagePro 1[23]xxW via USB fails with "device busy"

[Manuel Tobias Schiller]

The following reply was made to PR usb/79524; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Tobias Schiller <mala at hinterbergen.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, mala at hinterbergen.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: usb/79524: printing to Minolta PagePro 1[23]xxW via USB fails
 with "device busy"
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:38:10 +0000

 I've had reports by a FreeBSD user that the patch proposed by M. Warner
 Losh on 08/07/05 on the usb mailing list fixes that problem. I haven't
 tested it for myself, because building -CURRENT inside a virtual machine
 on a slow box just takes too long... I'm attaching the mail-exchange I
 had with "my" tester below (I initially got into contact with him
 because I also fixed a few 64 bit issues with my driver, but there was
 definitely a problem with ulpt, too). Thanks for fixing this.
 
 Manuel
 
 
 > Hi
 > 
 >     Thanks you too for investigating into my problem and not handling it like a lot of other oss developers ("I don't have this problem... so its not my problem").
 > 
 >     I've tested the ulpt patch (okay, its more programming by deleting [tm]) today with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT 20050802 and it works great. No dev busy anymore and printing seems faster to me.
 > 
 >     Greetings and thanks for the help,
 > 
 >         Andre
 > 
 > Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote:
 > 
 >> Hi.
 >>
 >> Thanks for the ultra-fast response! I don't know when during the next
 >> week I'll find the time, but it looks like there's going to be a new
 >> release of min12xxw after all. Thanks for helping me with the testing.
 >> Working together with people like you makes development of free software
 >> fun!
 >>
 >> Greetings!
 >>
 >> Manuel
 >>
 >> Andre Ilie wrote:
 >>
 >>> Hi
 >>>
 >>>    I've just compiled/tested your new min12xxw app and now it works for
 >>> me. It also prints 1200x1200 res now, which it didn't like it should
 >>> before.
 >>>
 >>>    Now i am updating to the 7.0-CURRENT branch of today and start
 >>> compiling it tonight as some system headers changed and I need to make
 >>> world. I send you my results then.
 >>>
 >>>    Greets and thanks,
 >>>        Andre
 >>>
 >>> Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote:
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>> Hi Andre,
 >>>>
 >>>> I've finally managed to get my sparc64 machine up and running under
 >>>> NetBSD and have done a few 64 bit fixes to min12xxw (I made two really
 >>>> stupid errors in min12xx.c and getline.c). It would be very kind of you
 >>>> if you could look if this new version fixes your getline problem, too.
 >>>> (Do keep a backup of your old version). It may well be that the problem
 >>>> was not in getline itself after all. (It may also be that there still is
 >>>> a problem in getline.) By the way, as you've got a real FreeBSD system -
 >>>> not such a slow emulated fake FreeBSD as I have, could you also test the
 >>>> patch to the FreeBSD-CURRENT line's ulpt driver that recently appeared
 >>>> on the usb mailing list while you are at it? The people on the list
 >>>> believe that it might fix the issue about the printer's usb port not
 >>>> working on FreeBSD (It used to return device busy on device open).
 >>>>
 >>>> Many thanks in advance for your efforts!
 >>>>
 >>>> Manuel