On Wed, 13 May 2015 08:28:24 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp> wrote:
> Wouldn't the Right Thing to do be to change the backend to read its > configuration in sane_init()? The SANE spec is pretty clear about the > fact that frontends do not have to call sane_get_devices() before they > call sane_open(). due to the way sanei_config_attach works, reading the config file will trigger a scan of all the devices, which I would rather avoid when the user specifies a device in sane_open(). the whole config system probably needs an overhaul, as there's much duplicate code in a lot of drivers. we need something to parse the configuration on startup and act on it at a later stage, but I don't have the time do write it. so if this patch works, it's the best I can do right now ;) -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo - CEO, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
