[sane-devel] saned does not work with 2.6.23-rc9

[abel deuring]

On 03.10.2007 14:46, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2007 schrieb abel deuring:
> Hi,
> 
>> It is very weird that the SG_GET_SCSI_ID ioctl does not work: Could you
>> check, if /dev/scanner -- should be a symlink -- indeed points to a
>> device file of some SCSI device (ideally, to the scanner's device file)?
> 
> I wrote this udev rule to create /dev/scanner:
> SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="SCANNER ", OWNER="saned", GROUP="jplatte", 
> MODE="660", NAME="scanner"
> 
> root at jako:~> ls -la /dev/scanner
> crw-rw---- 1 saned jplatte 254, 5 2007-10-03 14:37 /dev/scanner
> 
>> And if so, do you see any "suspicious" output in /var/log/messages?
> 
> No.
> 
>> Finally, can you run sane-find-scaner with SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255 and
>> send us the output?
> 
> Here it is:
> root at jako:~> SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255  sane-find-scanner
> 
>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
> 
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_scsi to 255.

did not give me any clue, but you already found the cause of the problem
:) And since the host adapter driver did not see any devices, we can't
expect to get useful output.

> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_scsi to 255.
> [sanei_scsi] sanei_scsi_find_devices: vendor=(null) model=(null) type=Scanner
>         bus=0 chan=0 id=6 lun=0  num=5
[...]

>> And which SCSI adapter and which adapter driver are you using?
> 
> An old Symbios based card
> 02:07.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 26)
> 
> with this driver:
> sym53c8xx              66964  0
> scsi_transport_spi     20864  1 sym53c8xx
> scsi_mod              122124  8 
> sg,sr_mod,st,sd_mod,osst,sym53c8xx,scsi_transport_spi,libata

Both driver and adapter are generally very reliable.

> 
> After some reboots I discovered, that the scanner is recognized by 
> sane-add-scanner if it is turned on during system boot. It is not detected 
> after executing the following script to rescan all SCSI busses (I'm using 
> ata_piix, hence there is more than one SCSI bus):
> for device in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan ; do
>         echo "0 - -" > $device
> done

Yes, if the scanner is not known to its host adapter driver, no
application will find it :) But it is nevertheless very weird that
_some_ SCSI related IOCTLs worked, but SG_GET_SCSI_ID failed, probably
for a "stale" device file.

> With this script the kernel detects the scanner according to /proc/scsi/scsi 
> and the device node is created:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SCANNER  Model:                  Rev: 2.02
>   Type:   Scanner                          ANSI  SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> 
> but then sane-add-scanner is not able to find it. Looks more like a kernel 
> bug, because this script worked fine with older kernels.

right.

Abel