On Wednesday 30 January 2019 06:24:08 David Melik wrote: > Earlier I'd been asking if the new USB Umax PowerLook 2100XL is > supported. It wasn't clear, and may or may not involve someone or any > new user trying to write drivers. Now I found out even the old (SCSI-2) > one doesn't work with kernels since March 19, 2018... at least not for > my Adaptec PCI SCSI-2 card (AHA-2920 or something.) The Linux kernel > just started removing drivers for plain/classic PCI hardware (and other > still-used old hardware, for years) despite brand new > system-/logic-/main-/mother-boards still being made with plain/classic > PCI slots. Is there any way I can recompile the old drivers (fdomain) > for new kernels? ... or should I just pay Umax to upgrade a scanner to > USB, or maybe buy a USB one, with the chance of it not ever working? > (maybe same situation unless I install an old/obsolete OS version.) > >
Looks like your AHA-2920 card is based on Future Domain chipset (AHA-2920A). fdomain driver was removed probably because nobody wanted to remove its scsi_module.c dependency: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10291777/ I already fixed some old SCSI drivers to prevent them from being removed but such major driver modifications require testing on real HW. -- Ondrej Zary -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
