Johannes Meixner wrote: > On Nov 18 09:20 Alesh Slovak wrote (shortened): >> But like I said, I really don't care who is the cause >> of this problem, I just want to see if we can fix it somehow. > > If you don't care who is the cause of this problem, > you cannot fix the problem and actually your proposal > does not fix the problem but is just one more layer > how to work around the broken design of udev and HAL. What I meant was, I am not looking to blame anyone for the problem. You seemed to think I was blaming distros, when I was just trying to describe the situation third party SANE backend maintainers are in. The conclusion in this thread was that we should be "doing the right thing", and I pointed out that we can't do that without some help.
I know that my proposal does not fix the root problem. From my understanding though, what I propose is not another layer. Distros already ship udev rules, and have to generate those somehow. I am just asking distros if they could make that "somehow" available to others to reuse so that we can generate rules compatible with our users' systems. > Again: > It does not matter how udev rules are generated. > As long as the values for udev rules can change at any > time in any way, any tool which generates such rules > will sooner or later fail and it is not the right way > to put the burden to deal with the udev mess to the > maintainers of such a tool. So you don't use the existing tool to generate the SANE udev rules files for SUSE? I know that at least Fedora does, it was my understanding that most, if not all, distros do. Happy scanning, -- Alesh Slovak Linux Team -- AVASYS Corporation alesh.slovak at avasys.jp http://avasys.jp
