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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:18:26AM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Direct hardware access like ioctl shouldn't be in the backends directly. I copied the basic access level from the hp3300 driver since the sanei stuff is not available to standalone programs. I imagine it wouldn't be too much work to fix, but it hasn't been done. > What about libieee1284? I have seen some defines for that? Does the > backend work with parport also? If yes, that'd need some work to only > use libieee1284 if it's available. Hmm, ieee1284 is a parport protocol? Well, the scanner has a connector for it but I would have no idea about the format of the packets. How can you capture data going over a parallel cable? > > If someone would have time to integrate it into sane, it would be nice.= =20 > > Integration would consist in : > > * port hp5400 Makefile into SANE compilation structure > > * verify hp5400 API is correct for SANE > > * support of others transport protocol=20 >=20 > I'll check how much work it is. The Makefile can't be too bad since it's been included in Debian apparently. > > I would be very pleased if someone would help us for the integration of= the=20 > > hp5400 backend. As would I. --=20 Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or > religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. > Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." > - Samuel P. Huntington --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+m+CqY5Twig3Ge+YRAsrDAJ42kZFAcu9y56UtGEduS1Fh0CBU5QCg1lSd NQ9b3p+TCqOUfkFw/2dyGKA= =Yfj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y--