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Immediately detach from devices with claimed but broken IPP over USB support #52

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alexpevzner opened this issue May 9, 2022 · 2 comments
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Immediately detach from devices with claimed but broken IPP over USB support #52

alexpevzner opened this issue May 9, 2022 · 2 comments

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Some printers announce presence of the 7/1/4 interfaces, but IPP over USB doesn't work due to their firmware errors. At least two of such devices already known:

HP Inc. HP Laser MFP 135a
HP Inc. HP Laser 107a

The proposed solution from here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipp-usb/+bug/1970055

@tillkamppeter

Alexander, as ipp-usb starts to communicate with the printer as soon as it attaches to it, you could perhaps add a mechanism that somehow finds out whether the printer is actually driverless or not, and if not, unattach ipp-usb immediately to give way for classic access (CUPS backend or Printer Application).

Basically, I agree with the following comments:

  1. There will be possible race condition between failed attempt of the ipp-usb to initialize the device and CUPS attempt to claim the device. If device looks like taken by the ipp-usb, CUPS should retry within a some reasonable time
  2. Some visibility is required that ipp-usb has rejected the device due to initialization error, to simplify processing of users' bug reports. Should such a device still be advertised on Avahi on some special manner, so CUPS/sane-airscan will ignore it, but it still can be listed with avahi-browse?
alexpevzner added a commit that referenced this issue May 12, 2022
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Detach from device, if it doesn't speak IPP over USB protocol (see #52)
a1bad7c 
    Some devices (so far, only HP-rebranded Samsung devices
    known to have such a defect) offer 7/1/4 interfaces, but
    actually provide no functionality behind these interfaces
    and respond with `HTTP 404 Not found` to all the HTTP
    requests sent to USB

    ipp-usb ignores such devices to let legacy/proprietary
    drivers a chance to work with them
alexpevzner added a commit that referenced this issue May 14, 2022
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Added ipp-usb status command, for troubleshooting
0dae5a2 
    The `ipp-usb status` command prints actual status of all
    attached 7/1/4 devices. It is designed with a purpose to
    add some visibility in a case of troubleshooting. See also #52
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Some visibility is required that ipp-usb has rejected the device due to initialization error, to simplify processing of users' bug reports. Should such a device still be advertised on Avahi on some special manner, so CUPS/sane-airscan will ignore it, but it still can be listed with avahi-browse?

My answer to myself here is the newly added ipp-usb status command, which prints actual status of all attached/recognized 7/1/4 devices, including those of them which are ignored by the ipp-usb either due to the explicit blacklisting, or because device initialization failed.

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Done in 0.9.22

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