On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:38:24 -0400 "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We could do that, but then any front-end that uses sane would have to check > the backend version number and the params version number. I would be more > inclined to convert 'last_frame' to 'flags', then you can probably get by > without changing existing backends (other than a word substitution). If we have decided to break for sane 2, it might be worthwhile to do that in such a way to avoid troubles in the future. If you add to this structure you don't have to change existing backends (as long as they zero the struct...) . In addition, it could be nice to have info about the media being scanned, where can we place it? -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it