Hello, Sane will not detect my usb scanners with kernels 3.5 and up due to the elimination of usbfs. IOW, libusb cannot read/write to usb scanners with the recent kernels.
Udev is the method always described in the documents to get usb scanners recognized. However, I have never used udev and I would rather avoid the use of udev (or any equivalent). Is udev an *absolute* requirement for kernels 3.5+ or is there some other way to get usb scanners to function with Sane? Currently, to avoid udev, I boot into kernel-3.4.68 when I need to make scans, but I would rather not have to do this. IMHO, an absolute requirement for udev would be a poor decision for Sane. Linux, and all OSS, is about freedom of choice and I am sure that many want to choose *not* to use udev. Frank Peters
