Jono Woodhouse wrote: > Did I read correctly that the new libusb-1.0 will require one of the > latest linux kernels?
That requirement will be dropped soon. > From a portability point of view it may be good to offer people the > choice to link to both libusb-0.1 or libusb-1.0 (and then having the > added functionality). This won't be realistic, unless someone wants to continue to maintain and backport stuff to the libfprint-0.1 branch. > Did you see any noticeable speed performances too? Not measured, plus my systems are also a bit fast. However I do now have an embedded unit, a MIPS clone with 4mb RAM and integrated UareU 4000B, so embedded performance is of possible future interest to me. > You might find that once libfprint is being included in many of the > Linux distros that it will have gained enough momentum, that the drivers > being included just follow suit of all the other driver components and > remain open. I would imagine that the majority of fingerprint devices > manufacturers are making their money from the hardware devices, and not > the software drivers. I don't think this is reality. I've yet to find a friendly vendor and I have contacted several. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
