[hpoj-devel] OID lists

[Jarl F. <ja...@di...>]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, David Paschal wrote:

> Jarl Friis wrote:
> > Good idea, the OID tables are device dependent, different devices
> > recongnise different OIDs, correct?, so there should probably be one
> > OID-table for each device or devicegroup, it would be smart if one could
> > autodetect what kind of device, and then use the related table for that,
> > the one on the web/in the pmloidentries.c is for OfficeJets I guess.
> There actually is a fair amount of consistency in the most important OIDs,
> but there are also some device-specific OIDs which may not be worth worrying
> about for our purposes.

I can imagine the usage of one OID is the same among different devices,
but what I ment was: the *set* of OIDs is not the same among different
devices, right? hence the OID-table is device dependent. So it would
probably be in order to make a global table of all known OIDs, and then
for each device make a table (representing a subset of the global
list) that tells which OIDs the device can use. the device-specific subset
could eventually just be a list of indexes to the global table.

Jarl