Comment 6 for bug 187049

I understand your suggestion, but I prefer the udev firmware download solution because the solution is cleaner. Udev was designed for this type of functionality and I see no need to convolute a cups "backend" with firmware download functionality. With the udev solution any cups backend will work including the "usb" backend.

Also the udev solution has less processor overhead. A cups backend would have to constantly check these devices to see if the device needs firmware. With udev this extra overhead is not needed because the firmware download is event driven not polled.

-dave