Hi,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:18:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> No one answered my question last time which was:
>       Can the scanner driver be deleted in 2.5, as everything now
>       works properly using libusb from SANE?

Oh, I did, but it looks like I only sent the answer to linux-usb-devel.

| SANE 1.0.9 will have support for both the scanner driver and libusb.
| However, some backends (drivers) still have hardcoded links to
| /dev/usb/scanner? so it will take at least one more version to get it
| right. So basically, no, the scanner driver isn't needed in future. If
| the removal is only in Linux 2.5, I think that's ok. For 2.4, I
| wouldn't do that because people tend to update their kernels more
| often than their SANE package and shouldn't lose their ability to
| access USB scanners.
| 
| I don't know vuescan very well, so maybe it depends on the kernel
| scanner driver. I have no idea about other packages.
| 
| But that's just my personal opinion.

Bye,
  Henning


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