[sane-devel] attach function status?

2002-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:54:59PM -0700, Dave Close wrote: > If not status, then it seems to me that it would be useful if > sanei_config_attach_matching_devices() could return a count of the > number of devices found. sane_init() could then total the results and > complain when that was appr

[sane-devel] attach function status?

2002-05-01 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:09:28AM -0700, Dave Close wrote: > The usual sequence of operations in most backends is to call > sanei_config_attach_matching_devices() in the sane_init() function. > Because it cannot return status while sane_init() can, sane_init() > lies to the frontend and alway

[sane-devel] attach function status?

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Close
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >Dave Close wrote: >>The usual sequence of operations in most backends is to call >>sanei_config_attach_matching_devices() in the sane_init() function. >>Because it cannot return status while sane_init() can, sane_init() >>lies to the frontend and always returns SANE_ST

[sane-devel] attach function status?

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Close
The sanei_config_attach_matching_devices() function returns void. This seems to imply that the internal attach() function, which is called by the sanei library, has no way to return status to a frontend. Sure, it can put a message in the debug log, but that's not the same thing. I'm dealing with a