We would accept such a patch. I wonder if a command line option or a config file option would be best?
allan On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Jens-U. Mozdzen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi *, just a minor follow-up: > > Zitat von "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi *, >> >> I'm attempting to use cascading saned servers, in other words: I'm trying >> to share a scanner that is reachable from the "saned" system via its network >> back-end. >> >> Technically, this works. Unfortunately, either saned or the clients are >> not prepared for this, as the network scanners are not not listed via >> "xsane" nor "scanimage -L". >> [...] > > > saned's source code reveals that it is intended behaviour on saned's side: > > --- cut here --- > switch (current_request) > { > case SANE_NET_GET_DEVICES: > { > SANE_Get_Devices_Reply reply; > > reply.status = > sane_get_devices ((const SANE_Device ***) &reply.device_list, > SANE_TRUE); > sanei_w_reply (w, (WireCodecFunc) sanei_w_get_devices_reply, > &reply); > } > break; > --- cut here --- > > the "SANE_TRUE" value for the second parameter of "sane_get_devices()" means > "return only local devices" and is handed to net.c's implementation, which > then simply returns an empty list. > > Would a patch to make this configurable (via command line option of saned) > be acceptable? I'd implement a "-r" option, with a semantic of "re-export > network-accessed scanner devices" and prepare a patch. > > Regards, > Jens > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
