hplip udev rule collide with non hplip managed printers

Bug #1774551 reported by Regid Ichira
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Bug Description

I have /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/56-hpmud.rules. I believe it is an upstream file. My point is that these rules are not restricted to only ATTR{idProduct} of devices that hplip handles. Which iterfere with other hardware that has ATTR{idVendor}="03f0". For example, printers that are managed by foo2zjs.
A lesser issue for me, and perhaps more difficult to resolve, is that this udev file act upon SUBSYSTEM=="ppdev". I think that the single line of SUBSYSTEM=="ppdev" should be commented by default, and the users should made aware to this with some sort of post install announcment, and a documentation paragraph.
I can try to provide a patch if requested.

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Regid Ichira (regid) wrote :

A user that analyzed it, and also post records from his log file is at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218509. Even though his report is almost 2 years old by now, things haven't changed as far as I can tell.

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