From: Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 01:15:24 EST
Hi Rick,
Actually there are common valid use cases - e.g., the
'supply' is 'staples' and is NOT associated with a Marker.
The design error in Printer MIB v1 was calling it Marker
Supplies and then including ALL supplies in the enums
- note that we renamed it PrintSupply for CIM MOFs to
reflect actual intended usage.
Cheers,
- Ira
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:57 PM, <Richard_Landau@dell.com> wrote:
> Another one for the list of anomalies in Printer MIB implementations.
> Sometimes the prtMarkerSuppliesMarkerIndex is a zero. This is supposed to
> be the index of the marker with which a particular supply is associated. By
> law, indices are nonzero. But someone thought that transfer rollers and
> fusers were consumable supplies that weren't associated with a marker.
> Surprise! Just try looking up marker zero in the table.
>
> Easy to code around, but crummy.
>
> rick
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