Mike Sweet has closed it with the following comment:
The Brother USB implementation is full of bugs like this. Assuming that any
fix is possible, it will have to come from the kernel folks, because we
depend on the USB printer driver (character device) to get the 1284 device
ID from the printer.
Here is Sitsofe's upstream bug report:
http:// www.cups. org/str. php?L2379
Mike Sweet has closed it with the following comment:
The Brother USB implementation is full of bugs like this. Assuming that any
fix is possible, it will have to come from the kernel folks, because we
depend on the USB printer driver (character device) to get the 1284 device
ID from the printer.
Moving to the Kernel ...