Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Hi,
r. a. schmied writes:
r. a. schmied wrote:
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
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r. a. schmied writes:
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a query or two about <backend>.conf file
1) do all, most, some backends support such runtime argument
alterations?
Each backend basically does it own thing. There is nothing that tries
to impose any kind of "standard". Some backends use it to tweak their
device detection routines, other to set some defauls and some do a bit
of both.
Your best bet is the sane-BE manual page for each BE backend. Next best
are the comments in the BE.conf file, if any.
# In the sources, you can find them as backend/BE.conf.in.
[...]
humm -- well i don't see any BE.conf (or sane-BE.man) [and did
ignore the case as well] in sane-backends-master-e13b80fa [...]
Sorry for not being clear (enough). I had hoped it was "obvious" that
the BE stood for whatever backend you're interested in. We have about
94 of them in sane-backends :-)
In your case, BE=genesys, that'd become sane-genesys, genesys.conf and
backend/genesys.conf.in, respectively.
# Perhaps I should have added a $ and write sane-$BE?
aloha olaf
well i must have still been asleep -- sane-$BE might have caused
some other neurons to fire but sane-<BE> or sane-<backend> with
or without the <> chars certainly would have at least i think so
in hindsight.
and you are correct about each sane-<backend> fully documenting
it's unique processing of it's <backend>.conf file, but it seems
that is not always the case. plus add to it a backend that relies
on sanei/sanei-config sanei_configure_attach, which at least from
my point-of-view could do a better job, plus has no associated
documentation (that i have found) and we find ourselves in the
current state ...
i'm about 50% of the way done with a strawman sane-backend_conf.man
file. so stay tuned...
ras
Hope this helps,
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