Hi,

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:51:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> So the userspace SANE tools don't need the scanner driver anymore?  If
> so, I'd be glad to remove the driver, like the others that we dropped a
> while ago for this same reason.

SANE 1.0.9 will have support for both the scanner driver and libusb.
However, some backends (drivers) still have hardcoded links to
/dev/usb/scanner? so it will take at least one more version to get it
right. So basically, no, the scanner driver isn't needed in future. If
the removal is only in Linux 2.5, I think that's ok. For 2.4, I
wouldn't do that because people tend to update their kernels more
often than their SANE package and shouldn't lose their ability to
access USB scanners.

I don't know vuescan very well, so maybe it depends on the kernel
scanner driver. I have no idea about other packages.

But that's just my personal opinion.

Bye,
  Henning


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