Hello all, Sorry if this was answered recently, I couldn't find much in the archives.
My question is about the USB scanner driver and its maintainance. If I understood correctly, the maintainer is now Brian Beattie. Should patches and bug reports be send to him only, this list or both? I'm talking about the following issues: * New vendor/product ids (I've already send some to Brian) * Quite a lot of scanners are still unsupported by the driver because of the "only 2 or 3 endpoints" issue. I.e. for some unknown reason the driver refuses to work with scanners that only have one bulk endpoint. Is there already a plan on how to fix that? There is a patch at http://www.mivlgu.murom.ru/~vsu/gt68xx/gt6801-linux.html. While I can't comment on the quality of the patch, it works for me basically. * General stability: With and without the above patch I get sometimes non-fatal kernel OOPS, especially when unplugging the scanner whe the application is hung or when trying to remove the scanner module. As this doesn't happen if I use libusb instead, I guess it's related to the scanner driver. Sergey Vlasov seems to have send a patch that may fix these issues to the old and new maintainers, are there any news about including or rejecting it? * Could the kernel message "scanner.c: open_scanner(1): Unable to access minor data" be silenced when debugging is not active? SANE tries to access all the /dev/usb/scanner* devices to check if there is a USB scanner and so a message is generated for each device file that's not "connected" to a scanner. * "Overall plan": Will the kernel USB scanner driver stay and be kept current? I'm asking because SANE has now support for libusb. While libusb has its problems (especially regarding permissions), it can support any scanner. I would rather stay with both access methods in SANE but that only works if the scanner driver is kept rather current. If the user needs patches for hhis scanner, the libusb approach is easier. Bye, Henning ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
