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Re: uscanner



> On Jun 25, 2021, at 4:10 AM, nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> hi tech-kern,
> 
> The uscanner driver only exists for compatibility with userspace Linux
> software that uses an interface that was already deprecated by Linux
> in 2004. All scanner software these days uses ugen.
> 
> I think we should remove this driver in case someone mistakenly
> enables it thinking it will help them scan things when in reality
> enabling the driver will just break scanning.

This seems entirely reasonable.

-- thorpej



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