Dave Tyson <dtyson%anduin.org.uk@localhost> writes: > I note that PR 50340 has been closed and with the latest pkgsrc under current > (amd64) my Mustek 1200 UB scanner seems to work OK - but I have comment out > the uscanner device in the kernel and use it as a ugen device. It seems that > this is the 'new world order' and the sane backend code to handle uscanner > devices is deprecated. Given this is the case is there any point in still > keeping the > > uscanner* at uhub? port ? > > in GENERIC? Quite possibly we should remove (comment out) uscanner in GENERIC. ulpt is more controversial, but cups wants to use libusb too. > I am of the same opinion as the PR originator that it is easier to control > access permissions with a uscanner device rather than having to open up a > whole raft of ugen devices, but I guess the sane developers feel that using > libusb makes support easier... Perhaps if we had something called uscanner that would match scanners and that libusb would fine, we could have the permissions management of direct matching but the cope-with-the-rest-of-the-world benefit of libusb.
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