the backend has multiple maintainers, see the Authors file in the source. The GL843+ are different enough from the GL841, that you should probably look at adding another 'sub' backend, instead of modifying the GL841 code. I already have some code to do this for the GL846, but it does not even compile at the moment.
allan On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Andreas Robinson<andr345 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is anyone here actively maintaining and developing the genesys backend > at the moment? On the webpage for this backend, Henning Geinitz directs > all questions here. > > If it's ok with you, I'll start working on GL843 support for my canoscan > 4400F. It probably means I'll have to rewrite other parts of the genesys > backend too since gl841 is fairly similar. > > So, if anyone here is working on it, please let me know, so that we > aren't stepping on each other's code. > > I want to stress that I'm not asking to become the maintainer. Yet > anyway. :) I have only just started. > > Thanks, > Andres > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
