I would rather prefer leaving it in the tree marked as broken than completly removing the source, for 2.4 at least?
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:48:10PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > I have reported this to our Mandrakesoft kernel guys, so next > Mandrakelinux version (10.2) should not have this problem any more. > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12891 > > For now, simply remove or rename the module on your system. > Till > > > Rene Rebe wrote: > >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 ... > > > >Yours, > >
