Hi, On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:58:00PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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?
Users who currently use sane 1.0.9 and the development kernels, and have Epson, HP or Plustek scanners won't be able to use these scanners until these backends are also moved to libusb. Epson is done in CVS. But hey, it's a development kernel, so I don't mind removing it. Bye, Henning ------------------------------------------------------- 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
