Installing drivers through PnP

Jean Francois Micouleau Jean-Francois.Micouleau at dalalu.fr
Mon Oct 22 09:13:18 GMT 2001


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, REILLY,JOHN R (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:

> > a solution would be to maintain a drivers blacklist. For each of this
> > drivers we maintain a list of fixup we do when such a driver is setup.
>
> I tried that. If you eliminate the user mode drivers (SPLUserModeDriver),
> you drop a huge number of drivers from the mix. If you black list all
> drivers
> that have ANY sort of problems because they have not been initialized, you
> drop most drivers.

I don't want to drop a list of drivers. I was more thinking of a list of
drivers where samba does the initalisation, ie: doing some
SetPrinterData() by ourself.

that's still pretty ugly and complex to maintain.

	J.F.






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