Toby, never ask if somebody wants to see patches, just send them :-)
Karl Heinz On May 11, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Toby Dickenson wrote: > Ive been using an Epson GT-5000 with sane successfully for a few > years now, > and recently Ive tracked down a couple of annoying characteristics to > sanei_pio.c.... > > Firstly, the sanei_pio polling loop currently runs indefinitely if > the scanner > is not switched on. It has a half-baked max_polls implementation, > but as far > as I can tell it is never enabled. Ive replaced that with a timeout > mechanism > based on time(), and now it reliably reports an error if the > scanner is not > switched on. > > Secondly, the sanei_pio polling loop uses 100% CPU while scanning. > Adding a > call to usleep in that loop brings usage down to 60% without noticibly > affecting scanning throughput. > > Is there any interest in seeing patches for these changes? > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] >
