Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:28:25PM +0000, Major A wrote: > That's true, unfortunately, as I just found out. In that case, my only > suggestion is to have the scanner kernel module create a /proc entry > that shows all recognized scanners, with their filenames. This of > course only works with devfs, because without devfs the module only > knows major/minor numbers, not which device files correspond to these.
Can you explain why the current approach doesn't work with devfs? If the files /dev/usb/scanner etc. doesn't exist we could also use other names. But maybe I don't understand the problem because I haven't ever used devfs :-) Bye, Henning
