[sane-devel] All sane frontends segfault with my HP 5200C

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:26:43AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Hmm.  This seems like something that should be checked by the program,
> not merely assumed and left to segfault later.  Where should I report
> this bug?

Here. But see also my other response.

> It's also rather counter-intuitive; it's my primary scanner device, so
> having a '/dev/scanner' symlink is a logical policy, and not something
> that should create assumptions about which bus it is connected to.

The problem is that 5 years ago there nothing but SCSI scanners (and
some parport or similar stuff). So /dev/scanner looked like the right
thing. Probably /dev/scsiscanner would have been better. I'm not sure
if it's worth all the trouble to change this.

Bye,
  Henning