Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:10:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: usb <usb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: uscanner & sane Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903181904040.74398@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20090318234818.GD79077@citylink.fud.org.nz>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: > I am looking into fixing sane-backends and see that the uscanner driver > is not needed at all. I wonder if we should follow Linux on this and > remove it in favour of libusb? uscanner is just a simple wrapper around > a fifo anyway, it has no logic. libusb also allows the detection of scanner button presses which don't make it through uscanner. Having said that, for some reason I can't recall I switched back to uscanner. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USAhome | help
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