Rene Rebe <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > we should remove hpusbscsi from the Kernel. It is long obsolete and > very unstable. I can send a patch for 2.4 and 2.6 (if needed) ;-) > > George Garvey wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:11:30PM -0800, Thomas Frayne wrote: > > ... > >> As far as I know, Rene has made it pretty clear he doesn't want to >> use hpusbscsi with the avision driver. He prefers libusb. > > Yes. Hpusbscsi has many drawbacks. The major ones are: > > - does not work with new scanners (that are designed for USB 2.0) > - it is highly instable (e.g. during an i/o error it locks up > quite easily and leaves the (usb sub-)system in a state that > needs a reboot ... > > The later problem made me add the user-space i/o code to the > SANE/Avision backend, because I had to reboot my system every 5 > minutes during development ... > And thank you for that.
The Minolta film scanner I bought turns out to be a temperamental beast. If I cancel a scan operation at the wrong time, it's time for the 'hard scanner reset->/etc/init.d/hotplug restart' cycle again. I would hate to think of having to reboot each time. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
