Generic key-vaue protocol extension for drivers

Felix Schulte felix.schulte at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 15:54:03 PST 2006


On 1/31/06, Philip Langdale <plangdale at vmware.com> wrote:
> Hi gents,
>
> Seeing as I have now raised the specter of this thing in public and
> the sis and nvidia drivers seem to be the only other ones which
> implement protocol extensions, what are your thoughts on this and
> how far would such a beast go in obviating the need for custom
> extensions in your drivers?
You may want to look at the XpExtension protocol - it comes with a
generic key-value attribute system to store information about
printers, spoolers, job, media etc. attributes in a very simple,
efficient and extensible way...
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