[sane-devel] 'scanimage -L' fails first time with modular SCSI drivers

[Oliver Rauch]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Are they really relevant any more? Even the oldest box I could find
> (SuSE system from 1997, kernel 2.0.3x) had only /dev/sg0...7 and no
> /dev/sga etc. I remember that some systems had symlinks sga --> sg0
> but how old are the real sga devices? Newer then /proc/scsi/scsi?

I am not sure about that. Has anyone a system that uses /dev/sga and
does not have /dev/sg0 ?

> 
> > what about /dev/uk0 - are there any modules when uk0 is used?
> 
> Aren't those only used on *BSD? As we are talking about kernel modules
> and /proc/scsi/scsi this looks pretty Linux-only for me.

Ok, thats true.
But may be there are other systems (BSD?) that also could get advance
of sanei_attach_matching_devices().

BTW: What happens when the user does not have the correct permissions
for /dev/sg0 (or the device that is used to load modules)?

Bye
Oliver


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