On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:49:12PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > There was a question about if the generic USB scanner driver should go > away in future and if the user-space tools can cope with this. > > I guess the main users of the generic driver are SANE and Vuescan. I > can't speak for Vuescan but it is reported to use the generic scanner > driver currently. > > I've asked the SANE developers about their opinions. Here is a summary: > > - Currently, not all SANE drivers can use libusb instead of > /dev/usb/scanner, but for most the change is easy and will be > finished in the next weeks/months. > - The needed version of libusb (0.1.6) isn't yet installed on all systems, so > currently either an update of libusb or the kernel scanner driver is > needed > - The generic USB driver should be kept in kernel 2.4, so nobody has > get new libraries just to use SANE. > - For 2.5 most developers don't mind removal of the generic driver. > One objection was that setting up permissions is more difficult for > libusb/usbfs then just /deb/usb/scanner. > > The complete thread can be found at: > http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2002-October/004735.html
Thanks for the pointer. Now that SANE 1.0.9 has been released, are there any objections to me removing the scanner driver in 2.5? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Are you worried about your web server security? Click here for a FREE Thawte Apache SSL Guide and answer your Apache SSL security needs: http://www.gothawte.com/rd523.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
