On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM, ?tienne Bersac <bersace03 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, i have to apologize for being away from computer since few > days. This was easter days. Happy easter days :D > > About proprietary backends. They have to support SANE, but SANE has not > to support those backends. Actually, as Allan said, nothing will be > break. And it's up to the proprietary backend to provide its own HAL > callout. > > The discussion is not about patching e.g. XSane to use HAL, but rather > to allow parallel unified device naming in SANE backends. This will > allow a HAL callout to compute mostly working SANE device name in order > HAL addon to open a device on plug and monitor its sensors, and much > more.
you mentioned HAL working on freebsd? what do sane's default device names look like on that platform? allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
