Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:29:17AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > >>Is there any good reason not to use (for example) '/dev/usb/scanner0' >>instead of '/dev/usbscanner0' in the various SANE .conf files? > > > Usage seems to vary between distributions, at least when I started > writing sane_usb, users used both types. Even the Linux kernel > documentation isn't sure about the correct place. devices.txt says > "/dev/usb/scanner*" while usb/scanner.txt lists "/dev/usbscanner*". >
Is there a good reason to have this in the configuration files, alongside with /dev/scanner? Couldn't the code in sane-find-scanner be reused in the backends? eg: sanei_find_scanner(attach_one); Frank.
